Category Archives: Projects

Finishing retrospectives with a positive vibe

Posted on May 30, 2015 by jayhyett

We run our team retrospective on a Friday afternoon and it’s usually the last thing we do as a team before we start our weekends. To ensure that everyone has the opportunity to start their weekend in a positive way … Continue reading →

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If you don’t schedule it, it won’t happen.

Posted on April 30, 2015 by jayhyett

I can’t quite remember where I heard this saying, but it has been something I’ve been thinking about quite a lot lately. You can think about what needs to be done or you can make the time to turn those … Continue reading →

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Cricket World Cup themed Retrospective

Posted on March 14, 2015 by jayhyett

The Cricket World Cup is in full swing at the moment, and therefore I thought it would be a good idea to bring a cricket theme to our team retrospective yesterday. First off we drew a cricket bat hitting a … 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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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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#SuperAwesomeMicroProject

Posted on November 30, 2013 by jayhyett

Because the world needs people to do stuff, not corporations! I’m one of 40 patrons who contributed $25,000 in total crowd sourced funds (via twitter) for $0 in fiscal return. Together we are building something that has never been built … Continue reading →

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