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Notes on story walls – story or task?
In my last article, I talked about “story walls” but in fact, I focused on task walls. The difference is minor but choosing one over the other can help improve collaboration among the team. Task walls, predictably, are about tasks – “today I will do task 1” while story walls focus on the thing being…
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Notes on story walls – simple task walls
Most agile teams use story walls – either physical walls or online tools to store their stories. But a lot of those teams see the wall as a burden rather than a tool that makes life easier for them. This is a shame because the only reason you want to have a wall is because…
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Quick and easy health checks for Agile teams
I often tell Agile coaches to start with a health check on the teams they are about to coach. People think this a health check is a great idea and they often research complex algorithms and assessment tools. But that is really hard work for you and the team. So at our coaching clinic we tried…
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Do you get value from your retrospective?
A retrospective is a meeting where the team stop working and take a step back to review how well they are working and what they can do to improve. It is generally done every sprint (or every two weeks if there is no sprinting going on). The theory is easy – the team share their…
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Different Retrospectives and pre-mortems
Some different sets of questions to ask when doing retrospectives.
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A choose your own adventure for agile coaches
Following a discussion I had in a recent class on agile coaching, I said I would create a “Choose your own adventure book.” I have only done 3 pages but if you are interested then have a look https://kingsaddress.wordpress.com/ If people like it then I might add some more content but for the moment it…
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Minor update to role speed dating
Running through the speed dating exercise I sometimes do, we tried a variant. We had a meeting with leaders across several teams that integrates together. So we went through the usual job summary to see if people had a similar focus and understanding of their roles:
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Dealing with baddies on agile projects
[Editors note – this is a long an obscure article that made sense to me and some people I explained it to. If it is not making sense half way through abort rather than continuing … it either makes sense early on or does not make sense at all] I was running an agile course…
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Clarifying agile roles – speed dating?
I went through this quick meeting with an agile class recently and I said I would post this for the crew to refer back to. In agile teams there are a couple of core roles and then the rest depends on the kind of work the team does. But we can give some more clarity…
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Card sorting – agile BA technique 158
Card sorting is a simple and useful way to gather feedback on which features people want in a new system, which problems they want solve or generally speaking, what they want. So I was surprised recently when some business analysts I was working with had not heard of the technique and I thought I would…
James King 