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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 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 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...
Chorei
Chorei is a Japanese morning ritual that energizes and aligns teams. It's a powerful practice that T...
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 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(...
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...
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 '...
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...
Virtual Meeting Tips
As remote work becomes the norm, mastering virtual meeting facilitation is essential. Here are pract...
What is PI Planning?
PI Planning (short for Program Increment Planning) is one of the most important events in the SAFe®...
Workshop Facilitation Tips
Workshops are powerful venues for solving problems, generating ideas, and building alignment. Here a...