by Esther Derby | May 29, 2009 | Collaboration & Teams
When Diana Larsen and I teach a two-day Leading Agile Retrospectives workshop, the second day is stand up facilitation practice. We create the bare bones story of an iteration, then the class works together to design a retrospective. Each participant has a chance to... by Esther Derby | Nov 25, 2008 | Collaboration & Teams, Leadership & Management
I know it’s not sexy to pay attention to making meetings run better. It’s more fun to dig into tools and technology. But the truth is that an teams and companies waste an enormous amount of time in poorly run meetings. But, we need to pay attention to the... by Esther Derby | Oct 16, 2008 | Collaboration & Teams
A friend forwarded this email to me:I just wanted to share a tip that has made a world of difference for our scrum. I read through this book about 4 months ago And have implemented some of the practices in it. This has taken our retrospectives from being a 1 hour... by Esther Derby | Apr 28, 2007 | Collaboration & Teams
If you’ve been holding iteration retrospectives for a while, you know that timelines get old after a while. But when team skip the data part, each person works from his own data (which other people may not know) and his own interpretations (which other people... by Esther Derby | Mar 4, 2007 | Collaboration & Teams
George continues the exploration of the Prime Directive.