A Miro workshop, created with Jamie Arnold, that takes you from vision to measures, identifying your outcomes along the way.
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Some tools that I have created for myself and others to use for their own projects and programmes. These are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
A Miro workshop, created with Jamie Arnold, that takes you from vision to measures, identifying your outcomes along the way.
Continue readingA while back, I created this sticker and was reminded of it this week during a meetup, so I thought I’d share it here.
Continue readingIn a previous post, I wrote about Quick icebreakers for online meetings, (that don’t suck). In that post, I mentioned that I love using the Think Links game created by Edward de Bono to get people to think creatively and get the ice broken.
Continue readingThis week I ran a short retrospective to close a two-year-long project; I had limited time and ten willing participants. This post covers the approach I used to create space for reflection.
Continue readingFeedback is one of the most powerful influences on learning and achievement
Helen Timperley and John Hattie
Many of us facilitate workshops or agile habits regularly and we know if a workshop has gone well if the outcomes are useful. There are also lots of elements of facilitation that we don’t often get feedback on. So here is a tool I use to help think about and frame facilitation feedback.
Continue readingUpdate, the posters are no longer available, but you can learn more about communities of practice in my book and you can download my community of practice tools and templates here.
If you regularly read my blog, then you will know that communities of practice are my specialist subject and core to a lot of the work that I do. I help lots of organisations who are building their specialist skills in digital and agile delivery and those communities form an essential foundation for just that.
Continue readingThis is a quick blog post with some tips for effective stand-ups that a friend asked me to write so he could share it with someone else. So here it is Mark.
These 4Ps came to life when I was working with Amy Wagner creating and delivering some training in Brussels. The training was intended to help a team get better at the way they worked together and stand-ups were an area that needed attention. This isn’t uncommon for digital teams, they may be having regular stand-ups, but the real value can sometimes get lost.
Continue readingI’ve been using Trello for a few years, both for personal projects and with teams. I love how simple it is to use, which makes it easy to use in the way that works for you. The downside of this is that some teams struggle with knowing where to start, this post is about showing you how the team I’m with at Defra currently uses it.
Continue readingThe realtime retrospective is a way of capturing feedback or information to help improvements in realtime. I recently tried it out at Agile in the City Bristol with some great results.
Continue readingAfter my talk and post in May, I have now turned the Team Onion (formally the Agile Team Onion) into a free ebook.
Continue readingI’ve run a fair few workshops over the years, and they tend to include many sticky notes and have learnt a few tricks along the way. Here are my top tips for professional sticky note handling.
Continue readingI have been looking around for the right digital tool that will support my physical project wall. I want something that allows me easily to back up information for reference, but more importantly outputs the useful metrics that are important for continuous improvement.
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