Author Archives: jayhyett

Good Day Bad Day

Posted on April 30, 2016 by jayhyett

I was having a conversation with my wife (Lauren) today on our way home from visiting friends, about the dinner time conversations that we have as a family. Most nights of the week we eat our dinner with our two … Continue reading →

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Give me a hoot

Posted on March 31, 2016 by jayhyett

In the last couple of teams I’ve worked with we’ve had some time critical projects to deliver with extremely tight deadlines to hit. As a Scrum Master or Coach during times like these you need to bring a little something … Continue reading →

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Valentines Day themed retrospective 2016

Posted on February 14, 2016 by jayhyett

Last year I facilitated a Valentines Day themed retrospective with the team I was working with. This year I’ve started working with a new team, and whilst it was only our second retrospective together I thought it was a good … Continue reading →

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Charging your car whilst you shop

Posted on January 6, 2016 by jayhyett

Over the Christmas / New Year holiday period my family and I traveled across town to a shopping centre (Chadstone) that we don’t normally visit. We had received some vouchers for a store which only has a couple of locations in … Continue reading →

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Christmas Tree Retrospective 2015

Posted on December 22, 2015 by jayhyett

Last Friday we had our final team retrospective for 2015 and given that it’s the festive season we thought it was only fitting to go with a festive theme (similar to last year). How did it work I started off … Continue reading →

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One Last Word

Posted on November 30, 2015 by jayhyett

In my last post I wrote about a check-in activity that I’ve been running with my teams recently called One Word. Over the past few weeks this activity has continued to work really well at the start of our retrospectives. … Continue reading →

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One Word – A great way to check-in and see how people are feeling

Posted on October 1, 2015 by jayhyett

Do you have members of your team that are often quiet or say very little in meetings, workshops or retrospectives, even though you know they could provide good input to the conversation? I’ve experienced this recently with a team I’ve … Continue reading →

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Australian Rules Football Themed Retrospective 

Posted on September 22, 2015 by jayhyett

Its currently the business end of the AFL season (Australian Rules Football) with the Preliminary Finals set to take place this weekend. The winners of those games will face off in the Australian version of the SuperBowl – the AFL … Continue reading →

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Pitfall Themed Retrospective

Posted on August 23, 2015 by jayhyett

Do you remember the classic 80’s video game Pitfall? Pitfall was released by Activision in 1982 and is one of the all time highest selling game for the Atari 2600, amassing over 4 millions copies sold. The Atari 2600 was … Continue reading →

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Ice Hockey Themed Retrospective

Posted on August 15, 2015 by jayhyett

Yesterday we had our team retrospective and we were lucky enough to have our Head of Technology join us which was fantastic. Claudia is a Canadian and as most of the people from that part of the world she is … Continue reading →

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