bookmark_borderSprint Retrospective Using The World Cafe Method

The Sprint Retrospective provides one of the best opportunities for Scrum teams to discover improvements. Retrospectives aren’t the only opportunities. And Scrum Teams aren’t the only organisation members that need to discover opportunities for improvement.

This post will describe a facilitation tool that I’ve used to help teams and other stakeholders discover such opportunities. For each, I will also describe a situation in which I used it effectively. The name of the organisation will be anonymised.

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bookmark_borderUpcoming Talks and Workshops

I’m going to be giving a few talks and workshops over the next 3 months. Hope to see you there.

Scrum User Group of South Africa (Cape Town, South Africa) – October 2017 – Workshop: no one is as smart as all of us – rebooting collaboration. 

Learning Outcomes: Understand the characteristics of good collaboration; understand what are the favourable conditions for collaboration; gamestorm new approaches to collaboration.

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bookmark_borderMy InfoQ Interview on Anti-Patterns of Agile Leaders

After speaking at Agile Practitioners 2016 in Tel Aviv, Ben Linders interviewed me about the important role leaders have in agile. It was originally published on InfoQ on February 25, 2016.

I have copied it and you can read it below or on InfoQ.

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bookmark_borderMeet The Coach: Regina Martins

Originally published on the agile42 website on 13 May 2016.

Interview with agile42 South Africa coach Regina Martins about her path and approach to coaching.

In this new instalment of our “Meet the Coach” series we talked with Johannesburg-based coach Regina Martins about change, the Agile world and “the smell of the place”.

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bookmark_borderThe Spiderman Antidote to the Anti-patterns of Agile Leaders

This annual event is happening on the 19th and 20th October and this year it is in Johannesburg.

My proposal for a 90-minute workshop was accepted and I am speaking on the 19th – The Spiderman Antidote to the Anti-patterns of Agile Leaders.

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