Using Tools to Improve Your Sprint Retrospectives 🎥
If you’re looking for ways to implement retrospective games to increase team engagement and focus, you’ve come to the right place. Retrospective Poker is a tool that give you 20 fun retrospective techniques to use with your team. You can also use the cards to involve your team in choosing their retrospective before the meeting […]
New Retrospective Poker Cards Ready for Sale
I am so excited! Big news here today! New Retrospective Poker cards are finally here. 100 of them, to be exact. The past couple of months after the end of the Indiegogo campaign, I have been working on improving the design and adding important explanations into the deck. Now everything you need to run awesome […]
Visual graphs and charts to increase team productivity
One of the things that Scrum Master is responsible for is making progress visible. This is an important task but I think it should not only be about progress. There is a lot of information that should be visible to the team at all times in the spirit of transparency and I think it is […]
How we Teach the Value of Refinements with a Board Game
As part of a Hackathon project at Bluecat Networks, our team of Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches decided to make a leaning game. The purpose of this project was to design a board game to teach teams difficult Agile topics, in this case, the backlog refinement. In the spirit of being Agile we used iterative […]
How we Increased Team Happiness by Introducing Scrum inside Kanban
Recently I’ve been working with a team responsible for triage. Though initially a medical terms, it explains quite well with what the team was doing – reviewing requests coming from customers and identifying whether issues reported are expected behavior, bugs or feature requests and how important they are Bright individuals were working in this team, […]
5 Reasons to use New Retrospective Formats
It seems like the importance of having retrospectives in Agile teams has been covered, and more and more teams understand the reasons behind it and believe in them. But the more retrospectives you’ve completed, the more difficult it becomes to keep teams engaged. How do you make your retrospectives not only more interesting, but also […]