by Jessica Long Agile Retrospective Activity The most unfortunate thing about a traditional eulogy is that the subject of gratitude isn’t around to hear it. An agile sprint is a lot like life overall in the sense that it’s over …
100 Top Agile Blogs from 2015
Oikosofy Team has prepared for you 100 Top Agile blogs in 2015 The list was created based on alexa.com ranking. Alexa ranking is based on the amount of traffic recorded from the users that have the Alexa toolbar installed over a period …
Agile Manager – What is an Agile Manager?
I have worked with Agile Software Development for several years, and during all these years I´ve seen the same problem over and over again: very few companies understand what is an Agile Manager and his role inside of the organisation. Most …
12 important lessons learned by experienced Scrum Masters
Since the beginning of the year 2015 we´ve been running one of the most popular scrum podcast in the world “Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast”. Hundreds of Scrum Masters around the world share with us their own experiences, learnings as well …
The Twitterspective – agile retrospective
by Anthony Petrucci What is the Twitterspective? Why hold an Agile Retrospective when you can have a Twitterspective? The Twitterspective is a paper-based social media-like simulation that can be used to gather data and generate insight from the team in …
Happiness Index – agile retrospective tool
by Luis Goncalves No matter how good teams are, there is always an opportunity to improve. Happiness Index is an agile retrospectives tool, which measures happiness of agile teams. Luis shares it in his and Ben Linder´s book Getting Value …
Imagine a Failure: a pre-mortem retrospective
by Nikos Batsios Conducting a Post-Mortem at the end of your project is a great lesson learned practice that could promote the recurrence of desirable outcomes while preventing from the undesirable outcomes! It’s true that we – our teams, processes …
What is a Starfish in a retrospective
by Luis Goncalves The Star Fish exercise is an evolution of the typical 3 questions that are used for retrospectives: What went well? What did not go so well? What should be improved? What you can expect to get out …
Value Stream Mapping
by Luis Goncalves What can you expect out of this exercise Although value stream mapping is often associated with manufacturing, it is also used in logistics and supply chain management, service related industries, healthcare, software development, product development, and administrative …
Team Assessment Survey
by Luis Goncalves Team Assessment Survey is a great tool for a retrospective. This tool comes from a SAFe framework established by Dean Leffingwell. You can find the original assessment here. The exercise demonstrated in this blog post is an adaptation …