Improving Relationships by Exploring Different Perspectives The quality of the relationships between people is directly related to how much they trust each other, and trust (as a manifestation of Psychological Safety) is known to underpin happinness and high performance in any team. Often, relationships have challenges and get stuck there because of different perspectives not being aired, explored and understood – and differences going unresolved.…
The Agile Canvas – agile sprint planning template Get started with Agile using the simple sprint planning Being Agile canvas Introduce others to Agile methods. The agile canvas is a simple template to help bring an agile angle to your work and life. Download your copy of the canvas and a free video course to help you apply agile The canvas is a great way…
A mindfulness exercise that helps us to take the stance of not-knowing and to recognize how quickly we let ourselves be guided by our first impression. With this bias we often miss the chance to explore alternatives and thus leave even much better solutions uncovered.
This is a great agile thinking exercise to really help you to understand and raise your awareness of an agile mindset. I play this game in my training, and I have played it numerous times over the past 10 years. I’ve played it as a variation of the game I have Never too at conferences with over 300 people, always everyone ends up standing up,…
Play this estimation game with your team at the start of your next planning session. Get everyone to estimate making a cup of tea and then ask them the where, who, what questions. Recognise the similarities and differences, what assumptions did you make? Consider how this might apply to your own scenario and the estimations you are about to make, or review. Use it to…
