The Board Episode 24 — Agile resolutions and resources

By Ruka

Tags: Agile , Other

Happy New Year to you all.

The Board is back for 2014 with episode 24 . Today our Agile Coaches talk about their Agile resolutions they have set for 2014.

This episode was promoted by Mike Cohn’s blog post: New Year’s Resolutions for ScrumMasters and Product Owners.

Here is a summary of their resolutions:

• Kirstin – Ask powerful questions
• Gavin – To be a better agile trainer, continuous improvement
• Paul – Treat everyone creative, resourceful and whole

Topics discussed:

• Always let team members speak before you do in meetings
• The power of silence
• The opposite day retrospective
• Praise the team more often
• Book: The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance 
• Redirect the team less often
• Product backlog refinement
• Be more available
• White-paper: Managing project risk with agile — to get a copy of the white-paper, email [email protected]
• Resolve to Improve
• Kaizen
• New Year resolutions for 2014
• Hot seat questioning
• Cynefin model