Featured speakers:
Derek
Chris Young and Derek Neighbors reflect on the trouble of having many small teams working for the same company on different projects and handling retrospectives. We hope that you give us feed back or start sharing your stories with us.
Congratulations on the podcast. Can't wait to listen to it.
Um… Is there an RSS feed of the podcast?
Great discussion, gentlemen!
Public courage to talk about negatives is important too, as you stated. Thank you for doing it.
One of our scrum teams has a similar problem of multiple projects. They seem to be the catch-all for the small things that come up, resulting in too much project switching. We defined a new initiative today to handle this problem by minimizing the interruptions in the first place and working on creating a backlog that handles diverse project task feeds. It's not a good situation but Monday, we start doing, inspecting and adapting to make it better.
Your discussion, though not the same, is helpful to my own problem solving creativity. It triggers a question: If you have a pair on a very unique project, how do you make the planning and retrospective interesting to them when most of the talk is about something they don't do?
Maybe you answered this in the podcast, I only listened once. :^)
One thing which we're doing at weplay which I think has worked well is doing weekly one-on-one's with all members of the team. I think it really helps focus on the individual, which is often lost on agile teams, as well as allow those who aren't as comfortable speaking up in retrospectives voice their opinions.
I'd love to subscribe to your podcasts, especially in iTunes. Can you set up a feed?
We submitted the feed to iTunes. Hopefully will be there by the end of the week.
We are working on getting it in iTunes.. It is in process. :(