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Lessons Learnt with Big Room Planning “Big Room Planning” – What’s the hype? Is it the latest “buzzword”? Is Big Room Planning for me and my organization? As a team of Agile coaches who have facilitated or observed 5 of these events in the past 12 months, we wanted to …
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Virtual, Virtual, Virtual We’ll follow-up with an article shortly about the basics of BRP and lessons learnt through our experiences facilitating and observing 5 events over the past 12-months. There was a greater impetus for this article as many people have expressed an interest in our virtual BRP format. Although …
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What are Crazy Eights Crazy Eights is a structured idea generation technique often used in design sprints. A design sprint is a timeboxed (single or multi-day) workshop where participants unpack a problem, diverge on ideas to solve the problem, then converge on the solution(s). Instructions Print out the PDF template …
Working in multiple companies amidst the CoVid-19 pandemic, we’ve seen the effect of badly run remote meetings on doing good work. We wrote this handy guide to help one of our clients through a 2-day whole-company work-from-home trial. Hope this guide is useful for others faced with working remotely at …
What is the Daily Scrum? The Daily Scrum / huddle / stand-up. It has a million different names. The purpose of this meeting is akin to the rugby metaphor of a reset of the game. Think of it as a daily reset, because this is where you set the scene …
What is Chorei Chorei literally means “morning ritual” in Japanese. It is a practice that happens every morning where a company comes together to go through the plan for the day, and acknowledge it’s people. The Japanese have actually been doing this activity before Agile was born. Spicing up your …
The Role of an Agile Leader in Self-Managing Teams With a shift towards self-managing teams, the role of the leader adapts from a delegation model to a servant leadership model of support, coaching, empowerment and joining the dots. Example Questions an Agile Leader Would Ask Here are some examples of …
Here are some tips for facilitating workshops. Preparation is key! General Workshop Facilitation Approach In general, the approach to facilitating any workshop (be it a design sprint, problem mapping, or planning) is: Understand the outcomes so you start with the end in mind. Create a clear agenda. I like to …
Businesses can’t run without people, right? Modern Agile principles highlight the idea you need to “Make People Awesome” and if we take that seriously, we have to look at the mental and physical health of our teams. As a manager, a scrum master or agile coach, it’s your role to …
I attended a workshop as part of the ANZ Business Startup Series. Thank you Melissa Frerk for sharing your insights and experience with us today. It was great to connect with like-minded business owners who want to do good things for their customers. These are the tips that I learn …