Six Thinking Hats for Large Scale Retrospectives
A fun technique to help you facilitate large-scale retrospectives based on de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats for product design and innovation.
Frameworks for Agile Leadership
The framework Six Thinking Hats (6TH) can hone your Agile Leadership planning skills and improve your Agile adoption. Find out how it works and download a complete walkthrough of a retrospective using our Six Thinking Hats Technique Framework.
Agile Retrospective Framework in Five Steps
Did you know that every well-run Retrospective follows five steps? In my experience, the best Retrospectives follow this outline first created by Diana Larsen and Esther Derby in their book, Agile Retrospectives. Here is a summary of each stage. 1. Set the Stage: setting the stage helps people focus ...
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Five Ways to Write Better Action Items
Writing specific, observable and repeatable Action Items with clear owners is an important skill for Product Owner and ScrumMasters to master (see my last post on why I feel this way). In Online Education at Applied Frameworks, we will give you plenty of opportunities to put this skill into practice as you ...
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Importance of Concrete Action Items
Retrospectives without concrete action items are pretty much a complete waste of time (and this coming from a guy who thinks the Retrospective is the MOST important discussion in Scrum!!). Over-and-over again, when I encounter teams and organizations struggling to adopt Scrum and Agile, I often find lame, uninspiring Action ...
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Best Ways to Motivate Team Scrum Members
Stop doing things that demotivate people! Seriously...there are a lot of silly things that people are expected to endure in big companies that are severely demotivating. Almost all of Peopleware is spent identifying how common practices in software management demotivates people. If it is within your power to stop these ...
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How to Fix Weak Retrospective Action Items
If your Scrum Team regularly cites "Better Communication", "Improve Quality", "Less Stress", "More Teamwork", etc., etc. as Retrospective Action Items, consider me completely unimpressed. I like fixing those things, but as Action Items for a Retrospective, they are milquetoast and dull. I would also guess that if those are Action Items coming ...
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Creating Ideal Customer Profiles
Analyzing past results to drive future successes may be the most important goal for today’s product leaders. You know the worst thing that can happen with a new product? You get some customers. Not none. Not a lot. Just a few. And now you have a bad idea that must ...
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