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The following two pictures depict the latest Inception I participated at. A little bit of history: For the past two years I have participated directly in 3 Inceptions, and indirectly in 5 inceptions. By directly, I mean, I was sitting in the war room for most of the...
Yesterday I used Google Drawing for a distributed retrospective. I was very pleased with the tool. The team members talked over a phone bridge (skype or similar would work as well). Google Drawing was used to collect data on the main data gathering exercise for the...
Jim Highsmith wrote an interesting post about micromanagement. He mentioned Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are good examples of successful product manager micromanagement. I totally agree with that. He also talks about the Agile process micromanagement. Experiencing both...
Today I read a blog entry which reminded me about a good lightweight exercise I have used in Agile retrospectives very for recognizing and fostering team collaboration. It is called the token of appreciation. Here is how it works: Bring a chocolate box to the...
This week I was at Agiles 2011, the 4th Latin American Conference on Agile Methodologies. I had the pleasure to give a 2 hour version of the Kanban and beyond workshop. It was very well received by the participants. I did do some improvements since the last time I run...
The Forming triangle exergizer is to be used for fostering the conversation about self-organization Given a group of people multiple of 3 (12 for example), the facilitator will run a similar activity twice. First run: The facilitator asks the group to walk...