When I give my talk “Thank God it’s Open Friday!” people always tell me how much they liked hearing about our failures on the way to a solution that works well for us. It’s surprising to me, because our previous trials with a slack day are only loosely related to the very successful end result. …
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[This post is part of a series about Menlo Innovations, the company described in “Joy, Inc.“] There is an interesting passage in “Joy, Inc.” about change saying that when you take away one reward system you have to replace it with a different reward system – one that encourages the behaviours you’d like to see …
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[This post is part of a series about Menlo Innovations, the company described in “Joy, Inc.“] At sipgate most teams estimate in Story Points. It was what you did back in the day when we started with Scrum and we’re used to it now. It works well enough for us. I’m not a great fan …
[This post is part of a series about Menlo Innovations, the company described in “Joy, Inc.“] It’s quite common for my colleagues and me to pair. Not just developers, but also UX & dev, PO & UX, Customer Support & PO, … There are many combinations and I usually feel quite smug about our level …
What a blast! We (sipgate) just hosted Richard Sheridan, CEO of Menlo Innovations and author of “Joy, Inc.”. Both, the real life Rich and his book are very entertaining and inspiring. So much so, that I’ll write a small series. I want to help spread the word about: Planning Origami (Became a 1-pager, not a …
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[This post is one of many sparked by Agile 2015.] When somebody asks you for advice, you do ask for what they have already tried, right? Before blurting out all of your brilliant ideas, right? What if I told you, we can do even better? “What have you learned from what you tried?” Can you …
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[This post is one of many inspired by Agile 2015.] Another nugget of wisdom from Esther Derby and Mike Lowery‘s “Coaching Flow” (the other one being “Reframing“) was “Don’t coach Supply, coach Demand“. So, what does that mean? Let’s say, there’s someone frying bacon and you want them to fry eggs instead. If there’s someone shouting …
[This post is one of many sparked by Agile 2015.] Whereas the first two games (click here for series start) are for teams to get to know each other, before conflict situations arise, “Reframing” is for the conflict situation itself. Esther Derby and Mike Lowery introduced “Reframing” in their session on “Coaching Flow“. It aims to …
[This post is one of many sparked by Agile 2015.] The second game (click here for series start) is from Jake Calabrese‘s workshop “Benefiting from Conflict – Building Antifragile Relationships and Teams“. It’s based on the belief that each of us has one default “toxic” = “less than helpful” behavior they fall back on in …
[This post is one of many sparked by Agile 2015.] Somehow I ended up attending a lot of sessions related to Conflict at Agile2015. Back at home I offered a workshop to share 3 games / exercises with the wider company. I’ll share the games and our experiences with them in this and the next …
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