Knowing the real needs of users and developing features consistent with this reality are key factors in building successful products. In this article, you will see more details on this topic, especially regarding techniques for writing quality and assertive User Stories, examples and other related topics, which are also brought up in the book Product Backlog Building (PBB), by the authors Paulo Caroli and Fábio Aguiar.
Many people are talking about Data Mesh. But there are even more people asking for references on the topic. I have been involved in many Data Mesh engagements and I will be sharing more about it in future articles. In this short article, I share the result of a retrospective with 50 people from different organisations.
I realised several people confuse "Key Results" with “Activities for achieving Key Results”. Many times I am facilitating a session for a team to define their OKRs. And I have seen this confusion again and again. Do not confuse "Key Result" with "Activities to achieve...
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I have just run a futurospective with my family about the COVID-19 virus infection risk. I have used an activity from the FunRetrospectives.com -- Risk Brainstorming and Mitigation -- and it went really well. The risk: one of our family members is infected by the...
Please find below a good OKR workshop activity. I typically use it as one of the hands-on activities for a OKR workshop. I typically split the participants into groups and give them the following KR problem statement for each group. After a few minutes we assess the...
Below is brief explanation for the Paper Airplane activity (with photos)for introducing the Scrum cerimonies. The Scrum Paper Airplane activity is simple and effective for introducing some of the Scrum ceremonies like: planning, review, and retrospective. It also...
“In the company I work there is an architecture team that needs to support 8 squads where each one has its priorities. That is, the architecture is being a bottleneck… Do you have any tips to help us? Thanks in advance. ”By Aline Dias This was a question...
This post shares a good activity to foster the conversation about the Scrum roles and their responsibilities. Please find below the Flipchart prepared for the Roles and Expectations activity for the Scrum team roles. I used this activity on a Scrum workshop. It was...