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10 Daily Scrum Ideas – Different Questions to Ask
The traditional three questions in a daily standup ("What did I do yesterday?", "What will I do toda...
A Deep Dive into Our Collaborative Team Poster
Our poster is quite high concept: the main shape is a floor plan of a house, from bird's eye view ma...
A Free 1-hour Practical Introduction to Visual Thinking
Want to learn visual thinking in just one hour? We've created a practical, hands-on introduction to...
A Useful Sprint Review Format
A Sprint Review is a short (0.5 – 1 hour) meeting at the end of a sprint. It speaks to the questions...
Agile Estimation Planning Poker Cards
As an update to our FREE Printable Planning Poker cards for Agile estimation, we have released a new...
Agile Jargon - Most Common Agile Terms
Although Agile has its roots in software development, it is becoming the norm for companies that nee...
Agile Leadership
With a shift towards self-managing teams, the role of the leader adapts from a delegation model to a...
Anyone can be a great visual thinker
Many people believe that visual thinking is a gift reserved for artists and designers. But that's si...
Brainwriting with an Ideation Template
How many times have you entered a brainstorm where everyone tries to talk over each other? Or someon...
Building a Great Distributed Team From Sprint One
Ever heard the "Forming Norming Storming" theory that stipulates it takes time to build a great team...
Can you teach a team to be creative?
We were recently referred to a social media marketing agency who wanted a fun team building event th...
Characteristics of a Change Approach with Examples
In our previous article, we introduced the synergies between change management and Agile, and discus...
Chorei
Chorei is a Japanese morning ritual that energizes and aligns teams. It's a powerful practice that T...
COVID-19 Support
In these deeply uncertain times around COVID-19, we understand that people are focused on the health...
Crazy 8's Ideation – A3 Template
Crazy Eights is a structured idea generation technique often used in design sprints. A design sprint...
Creating a Prioritisation Agreement
There was strong reason to do this because we had a team where individuals came together from differ...
Definition of Ready – An Anti-Pattern (and when it might be useful)
There are differing perspectives on 'Definition of Ready'. These are a checklist to be ticked off be...
How Covid-19 Wiped Away Our Big Room Planning (BRP)
Virtual, Virtual, Virtual We'll follow-up with an article shortly about the basics of BRP and le...
How to Choose an Agile Coach in New Zealand
There's no shortage of people who'll call themselves Agile coaches. But if you're a business in New...
How to Develop a Growth Strategy for your Business – Melissa Frerk – Sketchnotes by Zhi Lee
I attended a workshop as part of the ANZ Business Startup Series. Thank you Melissa Frerk for sharin...
How to Experience Agile in an Hour
Want to experience Agile in action in just one hour? Teamworx runs an interactive workshop that intr...
How to Run a Sharp Stand-Up
The Daily Scrum / huddle / stand-up. It has a million different names. The purpose of this meeting i...
In Sprint Planning, How Do You Prioritise the Requirements in the Backlog?
Having worked with many Agile teams, I find that every team has a slightly different approach to pri...
Introducing The Reset Practice
We are excited to announce the launch of our complementary brand: The Reset Practice(...
Kanban Desk Organisers
We've got these nifty personal Kanban organisers made for our course attendees. UPDATE: Generation 2...
Lessons Learnt with Big Room Planning / Program Increment Planning – What is it?
Big Room Planning (BRP), also known as Program Increment (PI) Planning in the SAFe framework, is a c...
Meeting Evaluation Canvas
Meetings are where much of the team's work happens. But are your meetings effective? Use this canvas...
Miro Futurespective Template
We're big fans of visual templates for running effective workshops. They give the workshop structure...
New Zealand Sailboat Retrospective
Presenting the New Zealand version of the Sailboat Retrospective. !NZ Sailboat Retrospective(/ima...
Partnership with Solidify @Scale
We are excited to partner with Scaled Agile Partner and Microsoft Partner Solidify(...
Print Your Own Planning Poker Cards (Fibonacci & T-Shirt Sizes)
Planning Poker is a group estimation technique, that allows you to quickly identifies gaps in unders...
Running an Urgent Retro for a Topic you know nothing about
Sometimes you need to run a retrospective with minimal notice and on a topic you're not deeply famil...
Self Care for Professionals
Businesses can't run without people, right? Modern Agile principles highlight the idea you need to '...
Sketchnote – How to Network and Grow your Business
I've been practising Sketchnoting to improve my visual facilitation skillset. Here's one from Krysta...
Sketchnotes from the Microsoft AI Tour in Auckland
I had a great day at the Microsoft AI Tour in Auckland, attending as a delegate from BNZ. I had...
Teambuilding with Teambuilders
Big question: How do you team build with a team full of teambuilding experts? Big answer: Yo...
Technical Demo Tips – Making them resonate with a non-technical Audience
Technical demos can feel abstract and disconnected to non-technical stakeholders. Here's how to make...
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The Power of Deliberate Creative Teams [Sketchnote Video]
Watch Dr. Amy Climer's powerful TEDx talk on creative teams, beautifully captured in this sketchnote...
The Role of Change Management in an Agile Transformation
When organisations talk about introducing Agile, the focus can often be on Agile adoption. The goal...
#thevisualcoach
We are proud to launch our new visual facilitation specific portfolio. Introducing thevisualcoach.co...
Thrive on Change – Change Management and Agile
Zhi Lee and Katherine Rive from Teamworx share lessons and experiences in change management. They ta...
Virtual BRP / PI Planning Checklist
Have you been tasked with facilitating a large virtual meeting (100+ participants)? We asked Agile C...
Virtual Meeting Tips
As remote work becomes the norm, mastering virtual meeting facilitation is essential. Here are pract...
Visual Thinking Workshop Summary – Agile Tour Kaohsiung 2019
Every year, I spend some time in Taiwan. It's an excuse to take a side-trip to Japan, and a great wa...
What is Agile? A Complete Guide to Agile Methodology
Agile is a mindset about responding to change. It is described by the twelve principles outlined...
What is Enterprise Agility
Enterprise Agility refers to the ability of large organizations to adapt quickly to market changes,...
What is PI Planning?
PI Planning (short for Program Increment Planning) is one of the most important events in the SAFe®...
What it felt like to attend an Agile course as a non-Agile person
We asked Carolyn Burnet, our partner from Rapid Results, to tell us what she thought of a recent Agi...
Why Use Story Points for Estimating
At a recent sprint planning session with a new Agile team, one of our team members asked why wouldn'...
Workshop Facilitation Tips
Workshops are powerful venues for solving problems, generating ideas, and building alignment. Here a...
Zoom Video Meeting Visual Cues
Every been frustrated trying to get the attention of your virtual meeting host? Don't want to interr...