Category Archives: Agile Board Hacks

bikablo – Visual Facilitation

Posted on May 31, 2016 by jayhyett

Last week I was fortunate enough to participate in 2 days of bikablo training with Marcel van Hove. What is bikablo? Well as Marcel has kindly put on his website – It’s an easy to learn visual facilitation technique that … 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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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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The Story Graveyard

Posted on February 25, 2015 by jayhyett

Do you have user stories hanging out in your backlog that seem to always get deprioritised at planning meetings? As a team with a semi operational function to it we have this problem quite reguarly, with stories that don’t fall … 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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