PostIt note as a Birthday Card?!

I saw this on my kitchen counter top when I got up this morning!

 

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My kids had made this to wish me a Happy Birthday! You know you are hardcore Agilist when your family starts giving you birthday card made out of, what else, PostIt notes.

This is just one more way to use this versatile tool!

Interested in knowing what are the other ways you can use PostIt notes? Check out these earlier posts..

What are the different ways you have used PostIt notes in your professional and personal life? Share it here with the community by posting a comment below.

Improve your Scrum Ceremonies…

Does your team have a common understanding of various Scrum Events? Are you looking for simple tools and techniques to help Improve your Scrum Ceremonies? Make them fun and Productive?

The Event Canvas

Look no further! Introducing Event Canvas!

Improve your scrum Ceromonies

Events canvas

[Download a PDF of this Event Canvas just put Zero on the Price]

As an Enterprise Transformation Coach, I do a lot of training. And, being an Agilist at heart, I am always looking for ways to improve the delivery of my training and the experience for the participants. I came up with this canvas to help me teach the basics of each of the events and ceremonies while keeping the participants engaged and interested.

How to use this Canvas…

I give out multiple copies of this canvas at each table during the training. Each table (team) also picks two to three events that they volunteer to discuss at the table and fill out this canvas. When the timebox is over, each team will debrief on the event they discuss; essentially walking the class through the canvas for the specific event.

As the debrief happens, you are using your facilitation skills to drive the conversation and explain the intricacies of the specific event. This is where you (as trainer, coach, and facilitator) make the magic happen šŸ™‚

Try it with your team. I promise you, you won’t regret it!

More tools, please…

Want more tools to make your scrum events highly productive? I have a collection of simple tools that can help you as you coach and mentor your team. Your team will thank you for finding these gems. Check out Improve your Scrum as a first step towards uncovering these hidden gems.

Improve Your Scrum Ceremonies

Improve Your Scrum Ceremonies

 

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Standard Work

Standard Work is one of the most powerful but least used Lean tools. By documenting the current practices, it forms the baseline for continuous improvement. Letā€™s review some of the benefits quickly.

Benefits of Standard Work

  • Standardizes the work across different teams, different people; ensuring consistency across the organization; making outcomes predictable and measurable.
  • Sets clear expectations, branding as to whatā€™s ā€˜givenā€™ when the team/individual says a certain activity is ‘Done’.
  • Ensure that certain routine, mundane tasks get done (and donā€™t get overlooked due to them being ā€˜boringā€™.)
  • A common ‘platform’ is set up, a baseline against which the effectiveness of the individuals and/or team can be measured; ensuring a certain level of quality.
  • It’s the DNA of continuous improvement (CI). It makes CI routine and ingrained in the very existence of the organization.
  • Standard Work is a ‘snapshot‘, a picture of the best way to do things at this moment in time, with an eye on continuous improvement.

Without standard work, there is no kaizen (CI)
– Taichii Ohno

In essence, Standard Work helps you in minimizing waste and maximizing value delivery.

Would it help to have your standard work documented? Can it help you, your team, your organization improve the productivity and deliver more VALUE for your customer?

Go ahead and document your Standard of Work.

What’s Better yet…

Get these Standard Work templates for FREE, and put your team on the “hyper Productivity” lane!

Standardized work is a collection and implementation of the best practices known to that point.

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Interested in more …

Interested in more than just the Standard Work? How about Checklists, template emails, and worksheets to help your Scrum team?
playbook for scrum teams
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Not convinced yet…

Listen to what Steph has to say below šŸ™‚

Testimonial from an actual Customer

I purchased this playbook and find it very helpful.  I think the email templates came in handy when trying to wrangle folks from all over the company together.  They keep me organized and the email now provides more information with these structured templates.

The ā€œStandard Workā€ for each role is great as well.  It provides helpful hints on role responsibility and helps with keeping me organized with all the artifacts related to a project.

Great work and thanks!

– Steph W

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Agile timeline

Agile TimelineAgile timeline! Did you ever wonder how we got to where we are today? Who were the personalities that influenced the course of history? Wonder what were the events instrumental in shaping the future that we know as present today?

If these are the questions that peak your curiosity, you are in luck! Here is my attempt at chronicling the events that started the Agile revolution.

Along with the events, I also list the personalities, the artifacts (books, white papers) that shaped what Agile is today. Most of these items are clickable, leading you to a source with even more information

Enjoy the Agile timeline! Relive those moments, and walk with those personalities.

Think we missed some important event, book, or personality? Please do write to us and we will update the timeline accordingly.