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Retrospectives With Remote And Distributed Teams
But remote work is here to stay. So how can we overcome these challenges to help teams work together to maintain unity and encourage participation across all team members regardless of their physical location?
Teams, Coaching & Facilitation
Kanban Pizza Game
It’s difficult to teach the principles of Lean and Agile simply by lecturing. People have to experience the principles by themselves to get a feeling for how it all works. By playing a game, you can gain experience without messing up your daily work or getting engrossed in the technical details. This is why we use games and simulations extensively in our trainings. If we can find no suitable game we’ll create one… like the Kanban Pizza Game!
8 Ways To Make Sprint Retrospectives More Actionable
“Aretrospective is therapy,” Cognizant Softvision Engineering Lead Greg Rice told me. “And therapy isn’t easy.”
Sprint retrospectives may not involve any personal breakthroughs, but they are a chance to work through the problems that inevitably arise as groups of individuals attempt to work as a unit.
Psychological safety: An Overlooked Secret To Organizational Performance
Have you ever worked on a team with low psychological safety? How about with high psychological safety? Chances are you could probably answer these questions without even knowing the full definition of this concept.
Stakeholder involvement in the Scrum Events
I wasn’t sure since when I found this understanding baseless and with no rationale. But before that, even I took pride in keeping the Stakeholders away as much as possible from the Scrum Team holding onto such belief.
How To Make Remote Pair Programming Work
Every development organization wants rapid, high-quality, code delivery. One successful strategy -- that's been around in some form for 25 years -- is pair programming. With this methodology, two programmers work side-by-side. One writes code and the other reviews it, and the two frequently switch roles.
Industry News & Analysis
Q&A with Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland about Scrum Guide Updates
The Scrum guide has been updated to better reflect what Scrum is and clear up misconceptions about it. Scrum can be used for building software products, and it can be applied to many other areas outside of software as well. Scrum is a framework based on empiricism for continuous improvement; it supports inspection and adaption daily and throughout the process.
Agile Outside of IT
Using Agile with a Data Science Team
Agile helped a data science team to better collaborate with their stakeholders and increase their productivity. As priorities became clear, the team was able to focus and deliver. Buy-in of the data science team by taking them through a journey of agile was crucial to making it work.