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Oct 08, 2019 Lina 1 comment analysis, retrospective cards, retrospective meeting

How to inspire the team with a fun and useful retrospective?

Retrospectives should be one of the most important events for Agile teams. Yet, very often they turn into routine and boring meetings, endless discussions with no clear outcome, or are even skipped. We’ve been struggling with this a lot ourselves, and we have come up with some ideas that – in case you are in […]

May 09, 2019 Monika 0 comments

User stories are the user-centric approach to build the backlog

Why user stories? User stories provide an excellent way to explain small pieces of your product clearly enough, so that everyone can understand what is behind. As the name suggests, they are related to a specific user (or so called persona) and allow the Agile team to feel empathy with the potential user, seeing the […]

Mar 08, 2019 Lina 0 comments

To take or not to take [an action item]?

Taking decisions The last time I joined a meeting as an observer to provide external feedback, I noticed a very typical situation. No one took seriously the decisions taken at the previous meeting. At the end of the current one a lot of new decisions were agreed upon, and most probably were going to be forgotten till the next […]