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:
- Overproduction = Extra Features
- Inventory = Requirements
- Extra Processing Steps = Extra Steps
- Motion = Finding Information
- Defects = Defects Not Caught by Tests
- Waiting = Waiting, Including Customers
- Transportation = Handoffs
mobileboxing 1.1
I had some downloads and some feedbacks, so why not spending another couple of “boxes” and write some more code?
- In this “release” there’s a simple sound (next step will be to have something like a rooster/alarm clock, that would be great)
- There’s a countdown with the minutes, seconds remaining for the current task (work or break)
- Screen is still fullsize, someone told me that he doesn’t know what to do with it when it starts, perhaps I’ll add in the future a customized menu with some graphic button at the bottom of the screen
The code, if you wanna have a look is on Google code here, the current MIDlet is here.
a MIDlet for personal timeboxing
I wrote a small, very very simple MIDlet for time boxing since more than one person mentioned in last weeks that it would be nice to use such an application.
It’s a MIDP 2.0 app and it should work on any phone, on my N95 works fine. Depending on the number of downloads and feedbacks maybe I’ll improve it. (UI is poor, no customization possible for instance…)
Slides on line
I’ve just right now published the slides of my two last speeches on slideshare, that site is really nice, simple and wao, web 2.0!
For time boxing look here, for importance of being driven have a look here!