Team

Pulling in the same direction with autonomous teams

From a yearly company strategy to executable plans for 13 teams

Why would you want to have autonomous teams in the first place? As I see it, they have two main benefits.

Morning retro

a fun, morning themed retrospective

Morning routine — Set the stage

Wild Wild West retrospective

a fun, Wild West themed retrospective

Which movie best…

The 7 traits of my “ideal” team

The best teams I worked in or know of, have the following traits and apply the accompanying practices.

Tradeoffs between cross-functional business teams and specialist teams

and where to use them

Pro cross-functional business teams

• no handovers with info and time loss

Why empowered teams work

Last week I gave a short introductory presentation about Scrum at our company meeting. I explained how the team picks the highest priority user stories from the Product Backlog, and turns them into a potentially shippable product increment during a sprint. The question arose as to who…