Published in Agile Batman·Apr 8A simple but effective icebreakerSimple things are often the best. This really simple icebreaker gets everyone participating in a meeting or workshop right from the start. It’s good for remote meetings as well as in person. The emoji check in. Preparation You’ll need: An online whiteboard (such as miro.com) A selection of emojis Remote meetings This example…Scrum4 min read
Published in Agile Batman·Mar 205 steps to help improve quality in an agile environmentAll of your feedback channels are full of customers complaining about something not working. You are constantly interrupted by something new going wrong in production, you need to fix it ASAP. …Agile7 min read
Published in Agile Batman·Mar 13Why using JIRA might be ruining your backlog refinementI think JIRA can be a great tool to help agile teams, but for backlog refinement it can cause some agile anti-patterns. Read on to learn more. Where it all goes wrong A product owner comes along with a list of stories in a JIRA backlog that have been perfectly crafted: The stories have good…Scrum4 min read
Published in Agile Batman·Mar 7A typical Daily ScrumI wanted to show you how the Daily Scrum I attend generally happens. The tools we use, the techniques and practices that help make it better. I hope it will help inspire you to question how you currently hold your own Daily Scrum right now and make any changes that’ll…Scrum5 min read
Published in Agile Batman·Feb 27Using miro for Market of SkillsWhen I’m first starting a new team, or when the composition of the team has significantly changed, I like to use a technique called market of skills to help the team figure out what skills they have right now and what skills they need to acquire. This helps them become…Scrum6 min read
Published in Agile Batman·Feb 20Using miro for Journey LinesIn a hybrid working world, it can be difficult to do some of the things we used to do in person. One of those things I’ve had to adapt is a team formation exercise called Journey Lines. I love using this method for helping people get to know each other…Agile4 min read
Published in Agile Batman·Feb 14What is Zombie Scrum?When you are just doing the Scrum events without even thinking, when you are just going through the motions and not really changing anything, when you are just doing them to prove you are busy, that’s when you have become a zombie, that’s when you are doing Zombie Scrum. All…Scrum5 min read
Published in Agile Batman·Feb 66 easy steps to getting started with team working agreementsWorking agreements will help set your team on a path to high performance. Team working agreements are essential to help everyone in your team learn how to work with each other. They allow us to codify the responsibilities and actions we take and are a great first step towards a…Scrum4 min read
Published in Agile Batman·Jan 30This is how we deal with bugsI wanted to show you how we deal with bugs in our agile development process. I’m not saying it’s the only way or even the best way, but it’s a way that works for the teams I work with. You might prefer to call them defects, but whatever you call…Scrum6 min read
Published in Agile Batman·Jan 2310 key traits of a great Scrum developerDevelopers are the people in the Scrum Team that are committed to creating any aspect of a usable Increment each Sprint. Without developers, you are building nothing! So how do you know when you’ve got an excellent Developer for your Scrum team? I’ve identified 10 key traits to help you…Developer4 min read
