Author Archives: jayhyett

Valentines Day themed Retrospective

Posted on February 15, 2015 by jayhyett

Last Friday we held our end of iteration team retrospective. We like to mix up the themes as I’ve mentioned in previous posts. This time two members of the team suggested a Valentines Day theme. Quite simply the guys drew … Continue reading →

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Do you or your team use symbols on your board?

Posted on February 5, 2015 by jayhyett

We recently introduced a legend and some new symbol avatars to our board to clearly visualise the state of a user story inside it’s relevant swim lane. The reason we did this was that we wanted to help the members of … Continue reading →

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Did you really take time off from work on your holidays?

Posted on January 20, 2015 by jayhyett

This article in The Age caught my attention yesterday as it’s actually something I’ve been quite conscious about recently. Did you really take time off from work on your holidays?  http://www.theage.com.au/executive-style/management/did-you-really-take-time-off-from-work-on-holidays-20150118-12s140.html Late last year I decided to remove my work … Continue reading →

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Keep on walking

Posted on January 15, 2015 by jayhyett

Like a lot of people I received at Fitbit for Christmas last year. In the short time I’ve been wearing it I’ve noticed that it’s changed a couple of things day to day…for the better. 1. I’m more aware of … Continue reading →

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Christmas Tree Retrospective

Posted on December 24, 2014 by jayhyett

Last Friday we had our last team retrospective for 2014 before heading off on our Christmas breaks. As it’s the festive season we decided to try out a Christmas tree retrospective, which was done in a similar way to the … Continue reading →

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#IceBucketChallenge

Posted on August 24, 2014 by jayhyett

On Friday night I was nominated by Kiran Sham to complete the ice bucket challenge to support and raise awareness for Motor Neuron Disease (MND) which is also known as ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) or Lou Gehrig’s disease. In Australia alone, MND … Continue reading →

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Hot Air Balloon Retrospective – The Follow Up

Posted on August 2, 2014 by jayhyett

In my last post I mentioned that we tried the Hot Air Balloon retrospective at the end of an incident (which was more like a PIR – post incident review). Yesterday we tried it again and this time it was at … Continue reading →

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Hot Air Balloon Retrospective

Posted on July 27, 2014 by jayhyett

I attended the LAST conference in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago and got to listen to some amazing people talk about Lean, Agile and Systems Thinking. One of the talks I went to (by Ryan McKergow) was on breaking the mould … Continue reading →

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When was the last time you went to a video rental store?

Posted on July 26, 2014 by jayhyett

When was the last time you hired a movie? Not from your couch but actually went to a video rental store and hired a movie over the counter? I sure can’t remember. I walk past a rental store a couple … Continue reading →

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What is the most important agile practice?

Posted on July 25, 2014 by jayhyett

The quote in this post is from Ester Derby and her book Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great Continue reading →

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