Here’s a comparison of the top 9 online agile retrospective tools to help you choose the right tool for your team – without the hassle of endless research.: https://retrospective.tools/
How Black Stories Revive Scrum Meetings
Jordann Gross wrote a blogpost how to use the game Black Stories in your company: http://agileety.com/how-black-stories-revive-scrum-meetings
How to build social connection in a remote team
- Ditch dull icebreakers for dynamic ones
- Over-emphasize onboarding
- Build a buddy system
- Set scheduled video chats
- Carve out a dedicated non-work chat channel
- Invest in company retreats – and do ’em right
- Use Know Your Team 🙈
Read the complete article here: https://knowyourteam.com/blog/2019/07/24/how-to-build-social-connection-in-a-remote-team/
The 25 best icebreaker questions for team-building at work
- What was your first job?
- Have you ever met anyone famous?
- What are you reading right now?
- If you could pick up a new skill in an instant what would it be?
- Who’s someone you really admire?
- Seen any good movies lately you’d recommend?
- Got any favorite quotes?
- Been pleasantly surprised by anything lately?
- What was your favorite band 10 years ago?
- What’s your earliest memory?
- Been anywhere recently for the first time?
- What’s your favorite family tradition?
- Who had the most influence on you growing up?
- What was the first thing you bought with your own money?
- What’s something you want to do in the next year that you’ve never done before?
- Seen anything lately that made you smile?
- What’s your favorite place you’ve ever visited?
- Have you had your 15 minutes of fame yet?
- What’s the best advice you’ve ever heard?
- How do you like your eggs?
- Do you have a favorite charity you wish more people knew about?
- Got any phobias you’d like to break?
- Have you returned anything you’ve purchased recently? Why?
- Do you collect anything?
- What’s your favorite breakfast cereal?
Read the complete article here: https://knowyourteam.com/blog/2018/01/08/the-25-best-icebreaker-questions-for-team-building-at-work/
Help je Scrum team blokkerende schijnbare tegenstellingen samen te onderzoeken met LS Wicked Questions
Het onderzoeken van een WQ in en met je Scrum team is een zinvolle en creatieve werkvorm, waarmee je onderzoekend recht kunt doen aan twee kanten van de schijnbare tegenstelling om samen voortgang te boeken!
Wouter Tinbergen schreen hierover een mooi artikel: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/help-je-scrum-team-blokkerende-schijnbare-samen-te-met-tinbergen/
55 Icebreakers, Energizers, Teambuilders, Refreshers and Recap activities
Per Beining created a nice card deck which he handed out during XP Days 2018. I really like the deck and already multiple colleagues asked me to share it with them. Unfortunately, the website from Per hasn’t launched (yet) and I have not been able to get a reply from him. I, therefore, made a quick scan of the cards myself.
Agile Resources
I came across Andy Bacon his blog that lists some interesting articles and resources, you can find it here: https://andybacon.com/agile-resources/
And just in case he ever decides to take his website offline, here is a quick mirror 😉
Some Agile Basics
- Agile Manifesto
- Agile Alliance Agile 101
- Scrum Guides
- Scrum Alliance About Scrum
- Agile Alliance Timeline of Agile Practices
- Agile Alliance Subway Map of Agile Practices
- Agile Uprising Coalition
- Ken Rubin’s Innolution Website
- Mike Cohn’s Mountain Goat Software
- Jonathan Rasmusson’s Agile in a Nutshell
- Michael James’ Scrum Training Videos
- Kent Beck’s “Extreme Programming Explained”
- DJA’s Lean Kanban
- Product Owner in Nutshell (Henrik Kniberg)
- Three simple truths
- Cotter Leader Change Process
Agile Related Certifications
- Scrum Alliance (CSM, CSPO, CST, etc.)
- Scrum.org (PSM, etc.)
- PMI (PMI-ACP)
- IC Agile (ICP, etc.)
- Lean Kanban University
- SAFe (SPC, SA, etc.)
Scaling Frameworks
- SAFe
- Nexus
- LeSS
- DaD
- Spotify
- Oikosofy Enterprise Agile Framework
- Interesting matrix on scaling options
- Also check out the thought leadership from Leading Agile on the subject of scaling Agility
Retrospectives
- Ideas
- Books
- Tools for Distributed Teams
Daily Scrum
Scrum Graphics
Checklists
User Stories
Role of Managers in Agile
DiSC Assessment (free)
Games
- Constellation
- Tribes
- Ball Point Game
- Name Game
- Penny Game
- Penny Game Modified
- Lego Scrum Simulation
- Innovation Games
Metrics
Estimation, Data Driven Estimates, and Forecasting
- Free tools from Focused Objective
- Projectr tool
- Data driven estimates
- Some of the research around that great article
- Actionable Agile
- Affinity Estimating
Collaboration Tools
Happiness
Podcasts
Product Owner Resources
- Opportunity canvas
- Lean canvas
- Product vision
- Product roadmap
- Release plan
Random Helpful Things
- http://www.slideshare.net/derekwinter/an-agile-development-primer
- http://openspaceagility.com/at-a-glance/
Technical Topics
- Appium (mobile app automation)
- Cyber-Dojo
Introducing Example Mapping
Example mapping is a great way to have a discussion about your user stories and can be used to make refinement sessions more interactive.
Read all about it here: https://cucumber.io/blog/example-mapping-introduction/
The Wisdom of Geese – How to Improve Team Performance
Agile35 cards which will improve your backlog refinement process and engage every team member
This article describes an interesting card game that will help you improve your refinement process: https://hackernoon.com/35-cards-which-will-improve-your-backlog-refinement-process-and-engage-every-team-member-54f929fdd282