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Opening Up: 1 Hack to Make the Retrospective More Open and More Fun
When done well, the sprint retrospective is the most important scrum ceremony because it provides an opportunity to openly discuss what went well during the previous sprint and what can be improved for the next and helps develop a high performing team. However, a well-run retrospective requires honesty, openness, trust, and a commitment to actionable, continuous improvement.
ReadA Reflection on Agile Leadership and the Importance of Trust
Agile is hard. As a leader, it challenges your ego. It pushes you to trust the team. It pushes you to work with a diversely skilled team with competing priorities and varying experiences. It pushes you to listen. The alternative is worse though, wrapping yourself in a false sense of security with its silos of certainty and conformity.
ReadIt’s okay to miss your sprint commitment (just don’t make it a habit)
I recently read the article “Scrum Is Dead. All Hail Kanban, the New King” and immediately grasped the challenge: commitment hostage taking. The blackmailing of the scrum team to complete their user stories. Or in the author’s own words, “Carry-overs are bad.” At some point, most developers will experience it.
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