Don’t do the same boring retrospective every sprint! Spice them up with themes! Themed retrospectives are more fun and engaging, and can stimulate fresh thinking and solutions. In this hands-on session you will be given a retrospective template that can be used with just about any theme you can come up with: dogs, cats, Formula One, cartoon characters, or holidays.
Agile Metrics
What gets measured gets done! So what are the right things to measure in an agile organization? This session examines a variety of metrics and helps you find the best ones for your situation.
Addressing Organizational Impediments
Scrum teams encounter impediments that slow their progress. Some of these impediments are caused by the structures, policies, politics, and culture of the greater organization. What’s a scrum master to do when facing one of these organizational impediments? In this session we will examine some dysfunctional organizations. We’ll practice diagnosing the problems and formulating intervention plans.
Retrospective Design
A well-designed retrospective supports continuous improvement. Learn the art of creating retrospectives that engage the participants and guide them to their next improvements. We’ll practice creating powerful retrospective agendas, and you’ll come away with many exercises that you can use to keep your scrum team’s retrospective fun and fresh.
Dependency Mapping
How do we handle dependencies in a scaled up scrum environment? In this game, you’ll have nine geographically-distributed teams with lots of dependencies trying to plan their work for next quarter. You’ll work together to visualize the dependencies using a mapping technique created by Season Hughes and Chris Sims. Your map will enable the teams to successfully navigate quarterly planning.
When Bad Things Happen To Good Teams
Life on a high performing, self-managing team is awesome all the time. Wouldn’t that be nice. What actually separates high performing teams from the rest is how they react to the inevitable bumps in the road. In this interactive session you will explore ways for a self-managing team to navigate a variety of little disasters. You will find that overcoming a significant challenge can bring a team together and leave them stronger.
Once Upon A Scrum
The best way to understand scrum is to do it. This is a fast-paced online simulation in which participants plan, build and deliver a product to their customer. No coding skills are required. It’s a lot of fun to play, and the learning is directly applicable back at work.
Navigating Conflict, With Style
Conflicts! We don’t like them. We all have them. How will you respond? It turns out, people respond in predictable ways based on their conflict style. In this interactive workshop, you will discover your conflict style. You will also learn four other styles. Then you will practice approaching conflicts in new and more productive ways.
The Agile Portfolio Game
Scrum is great for teams, but how can we be more agile at the portfolio level? The Agile Portfolio Game engages you in a full corporate portfolio management scenario. Your mission: Apply agile principles to maximize the value created across multiple scrum teams and product lines. You will see how limiting organizational work in progress speeds value delivery. You will also see how building to learn enables you to build to earn. It’s business agility at the portfolio level, and it’s fun!
Agile Estimation And Contracts
Traditional estimation always seems to lead to cost and time overruns on complex projects. Agile practices, such as scrum, have greatly improved how the work gets done. But the contracts we use and how we initially scope the work haven’t kept pace.
Participants will learn how to bootstrap the agile estimation process so that initial plans and contracts can be created. We’ll explore a variety of contracts that better support agile work. Fear not! This won’t be hours of lecture and slides. The entire workshop will run using scrum. Participants will work together on projects, learning by doing.