Agile Team Organisation: Squads, Chapters, Tribes and Guilds There is a growing trend around agile company organisation reorganisation with Agile and Scrum. A structure made popular by the Spotify model, converting your organisation into Squads, Chapters, Tribes and Guilds. Why Reorganise? Obviously building a product that is flexible, high quality and that can react to market […]
Tips for Distributed Team: The Live Window
The Live Window See your scrum distributed team in real-time. It happens quite a lot these days; scrum teams are often distributed across various locations. In one of my previous companies my team were split between two locations. This obviously brings many complications such as communication, meetings, collaboration and team building. There are many tools […]
Sprint Planning: Remember it’s a Sprint, not a Marathon
What is Sprint Planning? Sprint planning is a time-boxed meeting that is conducted at the beginning of the sprint, where the team and the product owner discusses and decides on the work that will be completed in the sprint. Generally, the meeting is split into two: What & How. What? The product owner brings a […]
Daily Stand Up: The Art of Standing Up and Talking
What is the Daily Stand Up? Daily Stand Up: The Art of Standing Up and Talking This is a daily meeting (usually in the morning), which allows the team to remain updated on progress and identify roadblocks. The daily stand up should not take more than 15 minutes, and each person should have no more […]
Scrum Game: Team Building and Throwing Balls
This is the first post in a series I will do on Scrum or team building games. They are great to add a bit of fun in your team, and also go over some of the core concepts of Scrum/Agile. The Scrum team building game — Ball Throwing In one of my Scrum training session, […]
Improve Team Communication and Collaboration
Team Communication and Collaboration How Can you Make your Team Communication and Collaboration More Efficient? For me, team communication and collaboration are key. These are the things that make teams efficient and great. For a Software Development team; who need to concentrate on their tasks, there are many tools that can help promote collaboration and […]
Product Manage Your Daily Life
Not only do I practice Agile/Scrum in projects, I also adapted it in my work tasks and personal like. I product manage my daily life. For this I strongly recommend Trello: www.trello.com Its an online tool, that allows you to create kanban boards for anything. They are ‘clean slates’, fully customizable and super easy to use. […]
Why Do You Do What You Do?
Why do you do what you do? Start with why. Simon Sinek This will be my first post on team management and motivation. Its really something that interests me (and something I find myself quite good at). The golden circle or Why do you do what you do? – Simon Sinek First I would like […]
Make Agile Daily Stand Up More Efficient
Use the Car Park Daily Stand Up and Agile Meetings I want to share a cool technique I picked up a while ago. It’s a good technique to use if your daily stand up or other agile meetings go off track . Car Parking Technique This is a simple way of making sure that any […]
Estimating in Agile: Experimentation is Key
Estimating in agile can be really tough, everyone in software development knows; borderline impossible for most. Currently, there are so many methods of estimation and no one method can work for any team or project. Styles include: Story Point Estimating : Measure the complexity of a user story based on comparison. This method often uses the […]
