Sprint Retrospective – 8 great templates to optimize results for this Scrum Meeting
Sprint Retrospective – How do you feel about this Scrum Meeting? The way I see it, you either love them or dread them! Retrospectives are a regular meeting where the team gets a chance to reflect on their work during the previous sprint and identifies areas for improvement. It’s a key element in the iterative […]
Agile retrospective made easy! – The number 1 Remote meeting Software free plan
Agile retrospectives made easy with the best remote meeting software free plan. Sessions will take your remote meetings to a whole other level and increase your teams productivity by facilitating communication. I’ll teach you how to use this tool for Agile teams and Scrum Masters.
Scrum in 5 minutes from Professional Scrum Trainer
A brief visual overview of the Scrum framework in 5 minutes. Learn what IS and is NOT part of Scrum.
How to run your first Sprint ever
How exactly do you start with Sprints as a new team? What should you do as a Scrum Master or Team Lead to get it going? Watch the video to find out the practical side of how to run Sprints in Scrum.
Retrospective Examples for Fun & Effective Sprints
95% of the time when I join a retrospective of a new team, often a team that doesn’t have a Scrum Master, it usually goes something like this: First, the team quickly collects their happiness level. “On the scale of 1 to 5, how happy were you this Sprint?” Then, the lead asks what the […]
The End-of-Year Retrospective
The year is at its end, your team is getting ready for holidays and days off. But before everyone leaves there is one thing you should do. An end-of-year retrospective. (if your team is already off for holidays, then make sure you do it once they all come back) I know, I never stop talking about […]
Improving Without Sprint Retrospectives 🎥
Thinking out loud about what continuous improvement really means in agile. The Agile Manifesto says: “At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.” So we know that in Scrum regular interval for that is Sprint Retrospective (my favourite Sprint event, of course). However, I […]
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 […]
How to Set Positive Mood in your Team with a Successful Retrospective
I love writing about Retrospectives. I would even say that it is my favourite Sprint Ceremony. Interestingly enough, my mood often depends on the outcome of the Retrospective, because I really want the team to improve. So when the Retrospective is a success and the team finds great experiments to run in the next sprint […]
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 […]