Category Archives: Team

Team Culture

I came across an interesting suggestion online regarding determining company and team culture, an exercise that one can ask a team to do. I tried this at my team meeting – went around the room asking everyone – ‘what 3 words would you use to describe the team?’. That gave us a look at the […]

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Team Goals

Goals built around a common purpose help teams become more cohesive and collaborative. Goal setting can be challenging, both in terms of identifying and then marking progress. I generally start the year, by bringing the team together for a team meeting to, set collective team goals, by first, Reviewing the company goals for the year […]

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Fun at work

Having some fun at work is important. Even as teams work late nights to make deadlines or try to achieve the different organization and personal goals, it is important that they pause for some rest and relaxation. This builds team camaraderie, reduces stress and ultimately does improve productivity and employee retention. We have had various […]

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Completing stories…

As a scrum team, the intent is to complete all stories that are planned and committed for a sprint. The reality is though that not everything will get done for all kinds of reasons, to name a few, incorrect estimates, where in something turned to be a lot bigger than anticipated. Perhaps the stories were […]

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Agile Retrospective

Agile Retrospectives are important in building high-performance teams. The key part is that entire team needs to go in with an open mind for the purpose of learning and improving. As a scrum master/team lead, my role, was to get everyone engaged and participate. Having moved from years of waterfall to scrum, at our very […]

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