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On the past 7 months I have been working with a SW delivery team on a way that is conceptually different than many of the teams I have worked before. The main difference: Instead of forming a team to deliver a feature, a performing team works on a feature after...
Paulo: Zip Roger Roger: Zip Marco Marco: Zoom Mathias ... Zip Zap Zoom is a great energy boost ice breaker. I made a small addition to it for helping the team memorizing each other names. After the Z__ command (Zip, Zap, or Zoom), the person passing the imaginary...
On this blog post I share an activity I used on my last Inception. I found this activity very useful to kick start the User Stories creation. What are the goals of this project? This question triggered the conversation about the business goals for the project. ...
Reasoning is the core activity for a retrospective. But it is important for a group to have a common ground on what they are reasoning about. The group has to first look at facts and perceptions. All argument and reasoning must be based upon certain perceptions....
Below is a deck for a timeline activity I used on my last retrospective. Timeline activity View more presentations from paulocaroli.Previously I have used this approach for a collocated retrospective. I would draw a timeline on a white board, create 4 areas on the...
Back in 2008 I would dream about bringing Thoughtworks to Brazil. Dreams come true! Today I am glad to watch 5 remarkable techie colleagues (all from Thoughtworks Brazil) shaping, spreading the word and fostering conversations about languages, technologies, tools and...