Large-Scale Retrospectives: Six Thinking Hats
Here is a fun technique to help you facilitate large-scale retrospectives based on de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats for product design and innovation. Enjoy! Six Thinking Hats Retrospective instructions
Five Ways to Write Better Action Item
Writing specific, observable and repeatable Action Items with clear owners is an important skill for Product Owner and ScrumMasters to master (see my last post on why I feel this way). In Online Education at Applied Frameworks, we will give you plenty of opportunities to put this skill into practice as you ...
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Build Working Agreements Fast
Working Agreements are one of the core compacts that all good Agile teams need and use. For those of you unfamiliar with Working Agreements, they are nothing more than agreed upon protocols created by the team govern their interactions and clarify expectations. They are different from Ground Rules which tend to be more ...
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The Roman Voting Technique for Agile Teams
This is one of my all-time favorite techniques to quickly arrive at consensus for Agile Teams. I use Roman Voting ALL the time because is fast, it is easy and it is fun. I have even had people tell me that the Roman Voting technique was the most memorable and useful ...
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Simple Coaching Techniques for the Agile Coach
Coaching is a distinct and powerful skill from the eight other essential skills of an Agile Coach (CSP-SM). Because coaching is an overloaded word in the English language, let me provide some guidance to describe what I mean when I am referring to coaching. For me, a coach is a person ...
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How to Play Fearless Journey
Fearless Journey is a game where the goal is for the players to discover a new transformational reality. The power of Fearless Journey is that it allows us to engage in deep thinking on how to completely alters our present condition and help us ignore the little problems that distract us. The objective ...
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How to Influence People to Implement Changes
"That is nice a idea to try, but don't expect anyone outside your group to do it." "I would do it, but our company has already adopted X, so there is no use in trying." "There is just not enough time in this release to try something new. Let's do ...
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How to Run a Coaching Dojo
A coaching dojo is a safe place to improve three important skills for an Agile Coach - observing, listening and questioning. The goals of a coaching dojo are to offer opportunities to practice listening without judgment, gather information more effectively and ask different kinds of questions to understand the real ...
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C6 Approach to Accelerated Learning
At Applied Frameworks Online Education, our goal is to provide you the essential information ("no fluff") in condensed chunks when you need it. The way that we are going deliver on that promise is through our C6 learning approach, which is based on the ideas found in Accelerated Learning. C1 ...
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Accelerated Learning Fundamentals
Accelerated Learning (AL) is a training approach that focuses on whole learner experience to maximize the learner's retention and application of what they have gathered during a training event. For people who are familiar with Training From the Back of the Room (TFBR), AL forms the foundation of TFBR since it creates the community space where the ...
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