Awesomeness Advent calendar
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
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