You have a day full of meetings with 15 to 30-minute breaks in between. What can you accomplish that you can finish within that timeframe without returning an hour later and having to start all over again? It might take a while to figure it out, but that’s the idea, to think about it and have it ready when those moments do popup so that at the end of the day you aren’t wondering what…
There is nothing cool about Scheduled Backups and Disaster Recovery… Until something goes wrong. And then they are the coolest thing in the world as they get you back up and running and bring you back to life. Many other things you might do, might not be the cool, sexy thing to do, but when the chips are down, you’re going to be glad you did them – keeping your resume and profile up-to-date, learning…
Have you scheduled it yet? Have you thought about it? Are you waiting for someone else to do it? What’s your Budget? Team events don’t need to be expensive, they can definitely be simple and their entire goal is to bring people together, have some laughs, and get to know each other better. The smallest team events that have been ad-hoc, end of the day, 30 minutes to an hour I rate better than the…
I originally titled this “Components of a Great Sprint Retrospective” – but behaviors is the better word. You can have all the processes and systems you want but at the end of the day, it’s the behaviors that the team excuses that make a team’s Sprint Retrospective successful.
Whether it’s code, test cases, or requirements. Trust what you have built, and how you have built it, and share it with others. There is nothing to hide from having done an incredible job that you have poured everything into.