Tag Archives: kaizen

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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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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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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