On average a person spends 8.5 hours per day and according to various studies probably productive for three hours only.
How often do you reflect if you are in a growth environment or contributing to an environment where you can grow. An environment where you are learning, experimenting new ideas, and having fun at the same time. Where you have psychological safety. One way I have experimented with creating psychological safety and designed team alliance is by talking about team values.
In this post I will be sharing my experience on how I’ve facilitated workshops for several teams to align on roles and expectations. I haven’t come up with a fancy name for it yet! Respecting simplicity so naming it Align(ed) Roles and Expectations (ARE) Model. “We ARE Team” tada!
Continue readingThe recording of my recent talk with Pakistan Agile Development Society (PADS) AgilePK Islamabad Chapter
Link to video recording: https://www.facebook.com/AgilePKOfficial/videos/231385974612151
Have you worked with Distributed (Agile) Teams, what was your experience, what did you like most about it and what were the challenges?
Have you worked with teams who lack understanding of each other and have miss-aligned expectations? In short, they are under-estimating each other’s potential and missing the opportunity to achieve greater things together. Continue reading to know how I experimented…
Are you using any metaphor in your Retrospective meetings?
Using Metaphors in our conversations can help us to understand an object, conversation or action from a different perspective. They can also serve as a powerful tool leading us to think in new or a different way.
In this post, I will explain how to use the Hot Air Balloon model to use in a Sprint Retrospective event.
How would you rate the meetings you have attended in the past? 1-5 stars. What did you like and what you wanted to improve? How was the participation and were you able to achieve its objective(s)? How was the decision made?
If you want to make your meetings greater again then this session is for you! Manager, Coach, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Technical Lead and any other role involved in organizing meetings.
This talk is an introduction to facilitating meetings effectively. let it be in an agile or non-agile environment. Team Facilitation done correctly can act as a powerful tool to create a safe environment to foster innovation where people can share ideas and feel more involved.
Replay the talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbxw8u9QZoo
Are you using any metaphor in your Retrospective meetings?
Using Metaphors in our conversations can help us to understand an object, conversation or action from a different perspective. They can also serve as a powerful tool leading us to think in new or a different way.
This post describes a Car Retrospective Model, a model to talk about Team weather, what is slowing a team down, Team or Sprint Fuel, Sprint Goals and possible improvements for the team.
Here are the model description and facilitation guide. You can use it in Sprint or any other project retrospective meeting.
Regional Scrum Gathering, March 2019 India talk (given in the form of a webinar)
Replay the talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6CCiv3Z0iY
Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/devork/an-agile-coaching-journey-khurram-bhatti-rsg-india-2019
Talk Description
In 2003, I started my first internship at a small company. It was simple and yet amazing to integrate different open source products into a working solution to provide customer value.
It was not a picture cut into the puzzle pieces and ready to assemble again, however, it required some code understanding and interface tweaks to make the user application flow smoother and easier.
The talk covered the following points.
We will select one model and do Retrospective for the session.
Replay Pakistan Agile Scrum Exchange (PASE) talk recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szkODE9Q004
Coaching a Potential 