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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/

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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/

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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 Related Certifications

Scaling Frameworks

Retrospectives

Daily Scrum

Scrum Graphics

Checklists

User Stories

Role of Managers in Agile

DiSC Assessment (free)

Games

Metrics

Estimation, Data Driven Estimates, and Forecasting

Collaboration Tools

Happiness

Podcasts

Product Owner Resources

  • Opportunity canvas
  • Lean canvas
  • Product vision
  • Product roadmap
  • Release plan

Random Helpful Things

Technical Topics

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Retrospective board game ‘Golden Apples’

If you need some inspiration for a fun retrospective, take a look at this board game:

Inspired by Carmen Guerra Jurado her holiday in Greece, it has:

  • Greek gods and monsters(🦉🔱)
  • Death (☠️)
  • Lego (🧱)
  • Personal feedback questions (💌)
  • Team related questions (🎭)
  • Sprint related questions (🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏼‍♂️) and, due to a lack of golden apples;
  • Gold chocolate coins(🍫🥇)

The teams enjoyed it and results were fruitful! (Pun intended.) The game itself still needs some tweaking. But Monopoly better watch its back! 😆

Copied from: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/carmen-guerra-jurado-b3156924_creativity-scrummaster-retrospective-activity-6582154931749339136-nGn7/

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De 10 beste vragen aan je team

Natuurlijk is er geen standaard lijstje van de beste vragen en is ieder team en ieder vraagstuk in een team uniek. Vanuit Loes van Luijk haar teamcoachervaring en opleidingen heeft ze wel krachtige vragen ontdekt die zij als teamcoach vaker inzet.

  1. Wanneer hebben we een goed overleg gehad?
  2. Wat gebeurt hier eigenlijk?
  3. Wat heb je nodig van ons?
  4. Wie of wat heeft er last van als we dit oplossen?
  5. Stel jullie belangrijkste opdrachtgever komt nu binnenlopen, wat zou die dan zien?
  6. Zou iemand de ondertiteling aan kunnen zetten?
  7. Wat hebben we allemaal al in huis om dit op te lossen?
  8. Wat wordt er vergeten?
  9. Als er een vannacht een wonder gebeurt, hoe zouden jullie dan morgen samenwerken?

Lees het volledige artikel hier: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/de-10-beste-vragen-aan-je-team-loes-van-luijk/