Some stuff you might try in your team

In the team we are used to be Agile, and especially what I call being Agile doing Agile stuff. Which means being not dogmatic: stop doing a practice when it does not give us enough value and starting it again when we feel that we are missing it. Not only: we also try always to introduce something new.

Since the beginning of the project we had 2 swim lanes on the wall, one for actions  to do and one for actions done, we just added a third column, the keep doing actions, it’s like having a star fish always there.

The waste bin. Yeah, we are interested in what’s going on with lean, so now there’s a box on the wall, if someone in the team feels that is wasting (s)he can put a card there, we’ll discuss it during the retrospective.

As a reminder, the seven lean waste types:

  1. Overproduction = Extra Features
  2. Inventory = Requirements
  3. Extra Processing Steps = Extra Steps
  4. Motion = Finding Information
  5. Defects = Defects Not Caught by Tests
  6. Waiting = Waiting, Including Customers
  7. Transportation = Handoffs
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