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How do I facilitate a first time Agile retrospective?
Awesome for you. The retrospective can be one of the most fun and informative "ceremonies" of agile.
So once you get the book, Diana is going to recommended never falling into a rut and tailoring ...
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What is the difference between facilitating a retrospective and leading one?
Facilitating a meeting is very different than leading a meeting. One focuses on leading the content of the meeting while the other focuses on the structure of the meeting...the facilitator being the ...
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How do I facilitate a first time Agile retrospective?
I would recommend this page.
You can plan a retrospective in a very cool way - building it from 5 blocks.
There is many ideas depending on what you want to achieve at a given meeting.
It helped me ...
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How do I facilitate a first time Agile retrospective?
Joels answer is great and I'll apply it also. For sure, I up voted it. My answer is to provide a second and more generalised alternative.
There is a general methodology for such "problems":
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Post Scrum facilitation
What you are describing may well be healthy Scrum behaviour.
Scrum relies on communication between the development team members as this promotes synchronisation and improves team effectiveness.
It ...
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What are effective techniques for conducting retrospectives for a geographically-distributed team?
We recently had two retrospectives where parties joined from two continents. It wasn't that different than having the whole team in one room.
The key is where you store the information. It is common ...
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How can I improve the following email template?
To the questions- Having been a project manager for longer than I care to really think about, I can say that more than half the time the answer to "what can I (the project manager) help you with" the ...
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How to create a useful valuable Scrum Master meet-up
Some suggestions:
External speakers
Senior management guests (e.g. CTO)
Maintain a 'top 5 issues faced by our teams' - use outputs from retros and regularly present the list to senior management
Have ...
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How to create a useful valuable Scrum Master meet-up
I don't believe you're trying to solve the right problem.
A community of practice and a working group are two fundamentally different types of groups. A community of practice is a group of people ...
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How could someone use Kanban or a similar method for community engagement?
I think the question is quite broad and the concepts of Kanban and community engagement are not related to each other.
The methodology you are going to use to implement your work is something ...
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Efficient patent brainstorming session
Have a look at 'The Design Sprint' as an alternative to brainstorming. Its a funnel like method to go from generating new idea's to a validated concept. (I have executed one and I was greatly ...
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Post Scrum facilitation
As it turned out, our programmers (the team has only 15 people) do not like long meetings, regular monitoring, and reports as well - it annoys them and distracts from working. So at the end of it, we ...
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Post Scrum facilitation
What are known best practices of having effective stand-ups, including post scrums, and what are the responsibilities of the facilitator in this case?
I will split your question:
What are known ...
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Purpose of daily scrum meetings
Daily standup meetings help the team in tracking its progress with reference to their commitment. They have made a commitment to deliver agreed upon tasks during a ...
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How can I improve the following email template?
The three questions are all really very similar. It may be more effective to just ask:
"What roadblocks have you run into today"?
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