Tag: Practices

Ways to Decrease Performance: Daily Standups

Teams are encouraged to experiment with new ways of working, reflecting on their processes and continuously adapting to ensure they are not merely ‘doing agile’ but truly being agile in their approach.

Exploring the concept of daily standups, this article challenges their routine use in agile teams and urges teams to question their effectiveness. Highlighting various issues such as fostering individualism, leading to irrelevant information exchange, and potentially delaying the addressing of obstacles, it sheds light on the unexpected pitfalls of this common practice.

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Ways to Decrease Performance: Velocity Tracking

Discover why velocity tracking, a popular Agile practice, might be hindering your team’s performance more than helping it. While it might seem beneficial at first, over-reliance on velocity can lead to burnout, overestimation of work, and neglect of long-term benefits. Learn about the pitfalls and start thinking critically about your Agile practices. Remember, it’s not about knowing your speed — it’s about moving in the right direction sustainably.

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Weekly Kickoff: Reconnect and Kickstart as a Team

The weekly kickoff is a fantastic way to start your week as a team together. For our team, this was probably the most important event of the week, and we loved it. It allowed us enough structure and flexibility to satisfy our needs and to set us up for a productive and successful week. In this article I describe the structure and elements of our weekly kickoff.

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Deep Work is a Team Effort

Deep work and team work are not mutual exclusive but deeply interconneted. Collaborating as a team is the purest and most efficient form of deep work and can help your team to achieve peak performance.

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7 Tips for more Deep Work for Individuals

Maintaining amble of focus and deep work time as an individual is a critical precondition of being part of a high-performing team. In this article I will give seven tips on how to get more deep work time throughout your week.

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Make three friends with one gift: Why developer experience is key to productivity, engineering excellence and stakeholder satisfaction.

Investing in developer experience leads to improved productivity, better engineering practices, and increased stakeholder satisfaction. Positive developer experience starts with providing access to technology and tools, fostering collaboration, and streamlining workflows. Create a comfortable work environment, offer training opportunities, and invest in your team’s growth to achieve a motivated and productive development team.

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