Category: Culture

Assisted Serendipity, Random Coffee and the power of the unstructured meeting

12 March 202017 March 2020 | by ewebber | 3 Comments

Reading Time: 3 minutes We have some of the best conversations when they are unstructured and happen by chance. That moment when you bump into someone when you are out and about, and they happen to mention something that really helps you. Or you sit down to lunch with a work colleague, and it sparks a great new idea. …

Agile and Lean, Culture

The team manual, an exercise to help build empathy in teams

15 November 201812 March 2020 | by ewebber | 10 Comments

Reading Time: 2 minutes In a recent talk that I gave at Agile testing days and Lean Agile Scotland called “Whole Team Responsibility”, I mentioned the team manual as a way of growing empathy in teams. Here is a quick write up with a little more detail and how to use it.