Lean Coffee Retrospective
Recently, I started allowing other people to run our teams sprint planning and retrospectives. So far, this has had numerous benefits for the team such as allowing more time for myself to do
Building a Team with Board Games
When you think of team building you will probably think of going out to some location or and excursion where you do some tasks as a team. However, during my time at a
Late For Stand Up!
I'm sure a lot of teams have had the issues with people being late for stand up. In the past, I have been on teams that have tried things such as
Inject Passion Through Training
Recently, someone on our team went to a conference and when they got back they were telling me about some of the cool stuff that they saw there. This got me thinking, why
Passion!
Every single one of us, no matter who you are, have an activity, topic or something that we are passionate about. You will know when someone is passionate about something cause it is
Large Improvements
Recently, while chatting to on colleague at work we were talking about setting up an automated deployment process so that the testers could deploy the solution by themselves. At first, I wasn'
Thank You!
Everyone in this world loves feeling valued and appreciated. The simple act of saying thank you can make someone's day so much better by simply recognizing the effort that they put
Eliminating Waste
I'm sure that you have come across something that your team thinks is really a waste of time and provides no benefit, yet you do it everyday as part of your
Paths of Leadership
From my experience, you get two main categories into which leaders fall into, the results driven and the "bear huggers". I'm sure that you have come across both types
Making It Safe
No one is perfect! No matter how hard we try we will always make mistakes. Most teams don't tolerate it when someone makes a mistake and as a result the people
No Bad Teams, Just Bad Leaders
I have recently been thinking about some teams that were not performing well. In my opinion, they were underperforming, not because they are incompetent, but because the leadership is poor. Thinking about it,
Show Me the Facts
I recently took over the team lead position at my current project, as the existing person was being rotated to another project. In terms of the client, the interaction with them has never