Perspective of Retrospective
Scrum received some criticism today in Computer Sweden. The article featured an interview of Ken Schwaber and our guy Henrik Kniberg. Tobias Fors from Citerus was giving the comment that Scrum lacked...
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Emo-lines
If you coach a scrum team but you’re not around to observe them during the sprint, how do you know how they felt about it? Ask them. You can interview them individually or as a group. Both approaches...
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When we develop using agile principles we have learned to "do the simplest thing that can possibly work". What happens if we apply this thought to agile methodology itself? What is the minimum number...
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Guest blogging at TV4 Digital Media
I have just, as a guest blogger, posted a new post at the blog owned by the development team at TV4 Digital Media; “Några övningar vi gjort under retrospektiven”. It´s a post, in swedish, describing a...
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Retrospective using Jimmy Cards
I had taken on to facilitate a retrospective for my colleagues’ team. They wanted a different retrospective than the usual. So we borrowed Crisp’s office and used Jimmy Cards! The group was around 15...
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Ett upplägg för en heldags affärsplanering
Nyligen så hjälpte jag till med att planera och facilitera en affärsplanering hos en kund. Då jag tycker både utfallet och genomförandet var väldigt bra så kommer här en beskrivning av vad vi gjorde...
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Team barometer (self-evaluation tool)
Sometimes it’s hard for a team to know if they get tighter and better as a team over time. This is a tool that allows a team to learn just that. Team barometer (self-evaluation tool) in a nutshell The...
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Facilitating from the Back of the Room at Spotify
Last week Jimmy Janlén and I held a shortened version of our course Training from the Back of the Room for our former colleagues at Spotify. Actually it is not “our” course, but Sharon Bowmans. It’s...
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Slides från session Agila Arbetsmetoder @ SAST Q20
Otroligt kul att se hur många som fick plats i ett konceptrum i Aula Magna under våra presentationer under SAST Q20! Vi pratade först om kontinuerlig förbättring och sedan om working agreements....
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Constellation retrospective
This is a strong retrospective for bringing issues up to the surface. Instead of just one person expressing an issue as a positive or a negative, the whole team feedbacks about the importance of the...
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How to facilitate a lightweight project retrospective
Large group retrospectives are long, large, unwieldy facilitations. So much so that they’re typically done only at the end of a project. Holding a 1-2 day retro every few weeks for a large project is...
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The three states of working agreements
You may have read about this elsewhere, but a recent event led me to write this. I feel that the working agreements concept is not given the attention it deserves. Working agreements are about making...
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Remote or Distributed Retrospectives
Meaningful inclusive retrospectives are possible with distributed teams. Let’s talk about the basics you need to have in place, how you can facilitate a distributed retrospective, and what to look out...
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Health checks for Teams and Leadership
In this blog post I want to share a powerful tool, the Leadership Health Check. It will help you become stronger as a management team and reveal improvement opportunities for how you, as a team of...
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