Awesomeness Advent calendar

Urs Enzler
101 ideas for agile teams
2 min readJun 2, 2016

Context

You want to boost motivation in your team.

The team does great things, but often sees only the negative things.

Action

During Advent season, the team finds each day a reason why they are awesome and puts in onto the calendar.

Examples:

  • we contribute to open source software we use in our project
  • we use the latest and greatest continuous deployment infrastructure
  • we cut the time needed to run our automated tests in half

What you gain

This is a fun activity, that boosts motivation and the team gets eager to improve even more.

How to strengthen

When you introduce this idea, make sure you already have a short list of awesome things that happend in your team. Use it to kick-start the advent calendar in case the team does not come up with any ideas. Teams normally look for big things, but this calendar should list all the small things, too!

Risks

When your team really isn’t a bit awesome, this can get very frustrating very soon.

More ideas at 101 ideas for agile teams

Many thanks to bbv Software Services for making this blog post possible.

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