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This workshop was delivered on 16th September 2021 and focused on introducing the core concepts of the Sprint Review and its empirical nature. I used a combination of Liberating Structures, Microsoft Teams, and Mural to deliver an interactive session. This session went really well however we had some technical issues on the live stream! Participant feedback was awesome, and we have fixed the audio and re-released the video which is inline below. Topic(s): Agility Audience: Teams, Scrum Masters, Practitioners League of Extraordinary Lean-Agile Practitioners CommunityThe league of extraordinary lean-agile practitioners is a group of peers and seasoned practitioners that continuously learn, share emergent practices, and discuss topics with courage, commitment, focus, respect, & openness! Join The League Introduction to Sprint Reviews [Review] Product Vision \ Goal: Demonstrate the viability and drive interest of live virtual delivery of content as a primary and premier method to share ideas and content. Iteration Summery For this fourth session, my goal was to build on the technology in use and become more proficient. Since we are not using Mighty Networks folks need to RSVP before they can see the join link. Maybe does not count as going… change your RSVP and the join link will be displayed. For some unknown reason we had audio during the intro but not during the stream. I followed the same set-up after the events and everything worked as expected. I feel like it was a glitch as when I or others were speaking “OBS” on my laptop was picking it up, it was just not transmitting. Another check for the DOR before the session. As usual with live stream issues, I was focusing on the people who were participating and did not have time to try to fix it on the fly. I used the Microsoft Teams recording to fix it in Post. Delivery I believe that we met the goal and the feedback was very positive ( Other than those that could not get in). I was very happy with all of the technology used. Feedback There was no negative feedback for this session, however, we did not get to fill out the feedback wall. I was frustrated that the audio was not working and I did not have the time to fix it while I was focused on my participants. As part of the changes in technology, we will be using Lean-Agile Community from naked Agility for events going forward. Folks can join and RSVP just like Meetup. Provide Aditional Anonymous Feedback: https://forms.office.com/r/pdNhe45MVH Introduction to Sprint Reviews [Retrospective] The big retrospective item is the issue with the voice on the live stream. The learning point is not to make an assumption that just because the music is working that the voice is too. Checking both is a good idea. Retrospective outcome: more of the same… build on quality. Other Workshops While these sessions are time-limited we expect to have many free sessions over time. If there are none currently you can contact us for private options. Introduction to Agile Leadership 30 Sep, 2021 | 16:00-17:30 | Europe [ BST ] Workshop Introductory 90 Minutes | Free Register more...

This workshop was delivered on 2nd September 2021 and focused on introducing the core concepts of Kanban & Flow. I used a combination of Liberating Structures, Microsoft Teams, and Mural to deliver an interactive session. This session did not go well and timing and explanations, perhaps with other considerations resulted in a haphazard and inconsistent session from my perspective. That said, much of the feedback was positive… so there is that! Topic(s): Agility. Lean Audience: Scrum Masters, Practitioners League of Extraordinary Lean-Agile Practitioners CommunityThe league of extraordinary lean-agile practitioners is a group of peers and seasoned practitioners that continuously learn, share emergent practices, and discuss topics with courage, commitment, focus, respect, & openness! Join The League Free Workshop 03: Introduction to Kanban & Flow Review I attempted to introduce the core concepts of Kanban and Lean in a 90-minute session and it quickly got away from me and we really were only able to focus on Batch Size. Product Vision \ Goal Demonstrate the viability and drive interest of live virtual delivery of content as a primary and premier method to share ideas and content. Iteration Summary For this third session, my goal was to experiment with some new techniques for delivering Flow & Kanban in just 60-90 minutes. We also experimented with using my Course Ticket system for taking registrations. We had over 90 people registered and about 30 people turned up. This time I made sure that all of the attendees had explicit access to the join link. I did not see any complaints about not being able to join. Review The Goal for this workshop was to give participants an overview of Kanban and Flow. Previous Review: Free Workshop 02: Introduction to Scrum & Empiricism [Review & Retrospective] Tools For the delivery, we used a combination of Microsoft Teams and Mural for the delivery and things went relatively well: Microsoft Teams Webcast – Very late in the game I ditched this in favour of just emailing everyone a link. This has resulted in a technology change. Microsoft Teams Breakout Rooms – Again the locking out of the meeting 10 minutes results in much better participation and fewer breakages. We did have quite a few people leave early, however, this was content and delivery related and not technology. Mural – No Additional Feedback. For the recording and live stream we used a combination of NDI & OBS: Check the previous details but this worked perfectly. Delivery I believe that we met the goal and the feedback was very positive ( Other than those that could not get in). I was very happy with all of the technology used. Live Recording: Introduction to Kanban & FLow with Batch Size Feedback Negative feedback is mostly around timing and participant involvement. Getting more of the people involved is important, however, it’s hard to involve folks that don’t have their camera on when others do! As part of the changes in technology, we will be using Lean-Agile Community from naked Agility for events going forward. Folks can join and RSVP just like Meetup. Provide Aditional Anonymous Feedback: https://forms.office.com/r/pdNhe45MVH Free Workshop 03: Introduction to Kanban & Flow Retrospective In this session, I was experimenting with quite a few things to see if it would work, and it did not. Mighty Networks – As part of the changes in technology, we will be using Lean-Agile Community from naked Agility for events going forward. Folks can join and RSVP just like Meetup. Locking the Meeting – This worked really well and we will continue. What's Next? While these sessions are time-limited we expect to have many free sessions over time. If there are none currently you can contact us for private options. Introduction to Agile Leadership 30 Sep, 2021 | 16:00-17:30 | Europe [ BST ] Workshop Introductory 90 Minutes Register League of Extraordinary Lean-Agile Practitioners CommunityThe league of extraordinary lean-agile practitioners is a group of peers and seasoned practitioners that continuously learn, share emergent practices, and discuss topics with courage, commitment, focus, respect, & openness! Join The League

Hey hey hey. What's good this week awesome people? The term "increment" can be a term that is confusing for some people who are new to Scrum. In this video I provide visualisation what the "increment" in Scrum means which hopefully can provide better understanding for people those of you who are new to Scrum. In this video, I also share how Scrum is compatible with DevOps and continuous delivery concept. For those of you who are still treating the Sprint Review as a demo session or as a User Acceptance Testing (UAT) session, hopefully this video inspires you to level up the game to move towards delivering releasable increments multiple times in a Sprint. Enjoy the rest of your week folks. {"preview_thumbnail":"/s3/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/vXjJ58iksJQ.jpg?itok=O7s1Ic5r","video_url":"https://youtu.be/vXjJ58iksJQ","settings":{"responsive":1,"width":"854","height":"480","autoplay":0},"settings_summary":["Embedded Video (Responsive)."]}

Durante el transcurso de un sprint, trabajar para aclarar el propósito es algo fundamental. Por otra parte, los miembros del equipo discuten sobre cómo se debe implementar una funcionalidad, esas discusiones a veces pueden volverse bastante apasionadas o acaloradas. En paises de sangre caliente como los nuestros, yo he visto hasta integrantes de los equipos llegar a las manos. Los defensores de los diferentes puntos de vista parecen estar más arraigados en sus opiniones cuanto más se prolonga el debate. Bloques antagonicos, posiciones enfrentadas. A veces, las discusiones pueden sentirse tan acaloradas como una discusión política. ¿Cómo mejoramos las conversaciones? En su libro reciente, Think Again, el psicólogo organizacional Adam Grant hace referencia a investigaciones que pueden ayudar a los equipos a mejorar estas conversaciones. La clave no es preguntarle a la gente por qué tienen un punto de vista determinado. El porqué victimiza. El porqué culpabiliza. El porqué es una pregunta a evitar porqué acaba lanzando la culpa a alguien. Para ver que lugar del porqué, debemos analizar el próposito de los que estamos haciendo y cómo el equipo tomaría esas decisiones bajo su autogestión. En la investigación que lleva a cabo el libro analiza que implicó preguntar a las personas por qué favorecían políticas específicas sobre atención médica, impuestos y energía nuclear. Recuerda que cuando se les pregunta por qué, las personas se atrincheran más en sus puntos de vista actuales. Pero cuando se le preguntó cómo funcionarían esas políticas y cuál era el propósito de ellas, Grant dice que las personas “notaron lagunas en sus conocimientos, dudaron de sus conclusiones y se volvieron menos extremas; ahora tenían más curiosidad por las opciones alternativas". En mi experiencia He intentado esto en un puñado de situaciones con equipos, tanto técnicas como no técnicas. Por ejemplo, cuando participé en una discusión sobre el cambio de sprints de dos a cuatro semanas y pregunté: «¿Cómo podríamos pasar a sprints más largos sin dejar de responder a las necesidades cambiantes de la empresa y de nuestros clientes?». Cuando pregunté eso, pude ver al principal proponente de sprints más largos pensar. Si hubiera preguntado, «¿Por qué deberíamos cambiar a sprints de cuatro semanas?» Habría escuchado (nuevamente) las mismas tres o cuatro razones por las que ya se había preparado mentalmente. Y hubiera creado bloques antagonicos de discusión otra vez. Aprender a preguntar cómo más que por qué lo ayudó a repensar su posición. Acto seguido, pedir por el propósito por el cuál estamos teniendo ese sprint, esa meta de sprint y esa meta de producto. Los participantes que están enfrascados en una discusión se atrincheran en sus puntos de vista existentes, la colaboración sufre. Conclusión Cómo funcionaría una decisión hace que la gente reevalúe sus puntos de vista, lo que los abre a diferentes enfoques. Eso ayudará al equipo a tener éxito con Agile, Scrum y cualquier nueva manera de trabajar que se crea necesaria para aclarar el propósito.