Friday 14th December at 12:30 (UTC) / (GMT) (check your local time)
Notes from the meetup
We talked about
- How to be Agile with fixed-scope and fixed-date? – Diogo
- Anyone have any trusty methods for getting actions DONE from a retro, or formatting. I’m using an experiment format, just wondering what others do – Stephen
- Applying agile principles/methods to data science teams? Stories, experience, advice? – Paul
- How can SMs/Agile Coaches work best together? (are they a team, a group or a community of practice?) – Hazel
- Using agile techniques for self-reflection – Simon P
Notes and links from the group:
Topic 1
Liz – To ensure continuous improvement, it includes at least one high priority process improvement identified in the previous Retrospective meeting.” https://www.scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html#artifacts-sprintbacklog
Lawrence – Monte Carlo Simulation https://www.infoq.com/presentations/monte-carlo and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNotEf40qUU
Simon – Teams I’ve worked with have used slack bots to remind people (outside of stand-ups) and tools like harmonia (https://harmonia.io/)
Topic 2
Emily – Popcorn flow https://popcornflow.com/
Adrian – http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mrother/
Stephen – Test card: http://www.seethinkdo.it/resources/test-card-v1.1.pdf
Topic 3
Diogo – https://blog.lunarlogic.io/2016/how-we-estimate-at-lunar-logic/
Lawrence – http://focusedobjective.com/forecast_agile_project_spreadsheet/ http://focusedobjective.com/single-feature-forecast-spreadsheet/
Adrian – How to Measure Anything https://www.howtomeasureanything.com/ and Impact Mapping https://www.impactmapping.org/
Topic 4
Emily – Building Successful Communities of Practice https://www.amazon.co.uk/Building-Successful-Communities-Practice-Webber/dp/095749193X
Topic 5
Stephen – Productivity Ninja https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Productivity-Ninja-Worry-Achieve-ebook/dp/B00KFEJNAE
Ian – Weeknotes https://weeknot.es/
Diogo – https://medium.com/thrive-global/how-does-one-become-centered-and-balanced-bb28627a4461
Andrew – Bullet Journal https://agileirl.blog/2017/07/03/bullet-journals-are-agile/
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