Cynefin Lego Game A game to let you experience four of the five domains of Dave Snowden’s Cynefin framework Context The Cynefin Lego Game is part of agile42’s management training for the Agile Management Framework. It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License. What It Is A game to let you experience four of the five domains of Dave Snowden’s Cynefin framework. Using Lego, you go through four exercises where the problem to solve and the context you work in is designed to create a simple, complicated, complex and chaotic system. Why You’d Use It When leading or managing agile transitions, it is important to know what type of system you are dealing with. Timing The game shouldn’t take more than 60 minutes. Material and Environment Tables for groups of three/four, about 200 bricks of Lego in 6-10 colours in different sizes with about 10% special bricks (flowers, wheels, ...) per table. Instructions Draw the diagram above on a flip chart. Exercise 1: Simple The Challenge Debriefing
About Self Organizing Teams/ | App Developer Magazine Posted 4/11/2016 12:05:46 PM by CLEMENTINO DE MENDONCA, Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org A question from a budding Scrum Master, who is transitioning from a background as a traditional project manager: “In order to promote team bonding and self-organization, from now on I am going to try something new with the team. In the sprint planning meeting, instead of me breaking down the tasks for user stories between each team member, I am going to just identify tasks and hours needed and leave it at that, and then I will ask each team member to “pick” tasks from the sprint backlog on their own, and later, as soon as they complete a previously picked task.” He goes on to say: “The behavior I want to encourage is the following: 1. 2. Has anyone tried something like this before? My answer, in my experience as a Professional Scrum Master, and Professional Scrum Trainer was the following: “Your recommendation is definitely a best practice for Scrum Masters. "Agile Methods are: - Iterative
The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers 2013-2014 The Burn-Down Chart: An Effective Planning and Tracking Tool Burn-downs charts are among the most common sprint tracking mechanisms used by Agile practitioners. Though their application and usage varies (some plot a burn-down chart using story points, whereas others use task count), plotting burn-down using effort remaining is the most effective and efficient way of using burn-down charts. This article looks at creating and updating a burn-down chart using the effort-remaining approach, interpreting burn-down under different scenarios, and examining common mistakes to avoid while using burn-downs. We conclude by looking at some of the benefits of using this innovative tool. How to create a burn-down chart The first step is to have a task breakdown in place. Figure 1 The Y axis depicts total hours in the sprint (420 hours), which should be completed by the end of the sprint. Updating the burn-down chart Each member picks up tasks from the task breakdown and works on them. As we progress during the sprint, the burn-down will look like this: Figure 2
High Fliers User Stories and User Story Examples by Mike Cohn What is a user story? User stories are short, simple descriptions of a feature told from the perspective of the person who desires the new capability, usually a user or customer of the system. They typically follow a simple template: As a < type of user >, I want < some goal > so that < some reason >. User stories are often written on index cards or sticky notes, stored in a shoe box, and arranged on walls or tables to facilitate planning and discussion. As such, they strongly shift the focus from writing about features to discussing them. Can you show some user story examples? One of the benefits of agile user stories is that they can be written at varying levels of detail. As a user, I can backup my entire hard drive. Because an epic is generally too large for an agile team to complete in one iteration, it is split into multiple smaller user stories before it is worked on. As a power user, I can specify files or folders to backup based on file size, date created and date modified.
david bohm, donald factor and peter garrett - dialogue. a proposal @ the informal education archives contents: dialogue - a proposal · why dialogue · purpose and meaning · what dialogue is not · how to start a dialogue · dialogue in existing organizations · copyright notice David Bohm (1917-1992) was a distinguished physicist who is best known for his work on the fundamentals of quantum theory and relativity theory and their implications for other fields. David Bohm struck up a close friendship with Jidhu Krishnamurti. Here we reprint a very influential paper written with Donald Factor and Peter Garrett. bohm links: david bohm homepage; bohm dialogue list Dialogue - A proposal Dialogue, as we are choosing to use the word, is a way of exploring the roots of the many crises that face humanity today. In Dialogue, a group of people can explore the individual and collective presuppositions, ideas, beliefs, and feelings that subtly control their interactions. Because the nature of Dialogue is exploratory, its meaning and its methods continue to unfold. Why dialogue Dr. Purpose and meaning
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