Appreciation in Agile teams - "Shout Outs"

Here's a simple idea that provides great benefits for teams. I was working with a team that started giving "shout-outs" at their retrospectives. Any team member could take a minute to recognize other team members for anything they did - whether it was to help someone, take on a task to help out, take on a role even if it's not their primary role.... how do you think this worked out?

Agile Lunch 'N Learns - ongoing practice

This is well known and simple to use. At my current client, which is in the middle of a large agile transformation, we have regular lunch learning sessions within the various Director's organizations. Not all groups are involved yet, but we working on it. In one of the groups I help we conduct a session about every 2 months with a final retrospective session near the end of the year.

Card Game Ends

It was fun while it lasted. You can look back over the various cards to see how they apply to agile, or maybe they don't apply. This card clearly ends the streak of cards that could be applied to and discussed in the context of agile projects. Living in the Moment by Barbara Ann Kipfer (a deck of 52 inspirational cards).

If you're on a spiritual journey this card applies, otherwise it's just too much of a stretch to make this apply to agile development. So, the card game is over. Back to regular posts after this.

Agile - Act Now

Yet another card to continue the game of drawing cards. This one is about acting now. Living in the Moment by Barbara Ann Kipfer (a deck of 52 inspirational cards).

This continues the theme of focusing on the now, not the later. Keeping in mind that we can only deal with the present moment, not the past and not the future.

Overflowing - Make room for new ideas, new practices, ...

The card game continues. Here's the card I drew this time... Living in the Moment by Barbara Ann Kipfer (a deck of 52 inspirational cards).

So what does this one mean in an agile world.