Category Archives: Teams

Brief thought on adopting the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Posted on July 29, 2015 by jayhyett

Tonight we hosted the Melbourne Agile and Scrum meetup at our office with the theme being reflections on the Agile Australia 2015 conference. The concept was open space  which allowed everyone to self organise into groups and for the conversation to flow … Continue reading →

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Submarine Themed Retrospective

Posted on July 11, 2015 by jayhyett

Agile Australia was a couple of weeks ago and one of the key note speakers was David Marquet. David is a retired U.S. Navel Captain of the nuclear powered submarine the USS Santa Fe and the author of the Turn … Continue reading →

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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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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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Run Run Run

Posted on February 19, 2015 by jayhyett

This week I took part in another Fitbit challenge with some colleagues from work. The challenge was who could finish a 24 hour period with the most steps. Having lost my previous two challenges I was determined to not let … Continue reading →

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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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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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