Assumption map as a tool to helps better align what product is expected to do.

Assumption mapping helps you prioritize & focus on what assumptions to test/validate next. i.e. What to learn next, in the sense of Lean Startup’s
“Build, Measure, Learn” cycle. What do we need to learn next? What do we need to measure to learn it? What do we need to build to measure it?
This map helps product owners and their stakeholders better align their assumptions about what their product is expected to do and the people they believe will use their product. This creates a repository of assumptions that can be explored and validated before committing time and money to experimenting, desig...

Scrum Add-on's for Jira

Using burn charts in scrum -Tell the story behind the numbers

Burn charts helps us tell the story behind the numbers. Let’s review what a burn chart is , what valuable information it can give us and what usages of a burn chart we may find in agile projects and other agile environments.

Causal Loop Diagram -Understandung deeper dynamics.

Some things are better expressed with a visual model than in words alone.  Casual loop diagrams are used to create a visual relationship model as we investigate the networks and interactions of situations. Highly effective for agile coaches.

Quick compare of agile tools – evaluating agile tools

Choosing a product based on how it serves your needs and taking cost into consideration. The market for agile project management tools is now mature and saturated, with dozens of offerings from both small and large vendors, and more products hitting the market regularly. What one should do to review a few dozens of tools on the market?

Tools usually will do better in some aspects and stay behind in others. This is natural effect of different influences and experience their creators have. So here’s comparative collection of agile tools, some checklists, prices and specific comparative aspects. 

Acing problem solving - A3 thinking and Popcorn Flow -@agilesensei

(@agilesensei) What if people discovered how to develop insanely good habits of thinking, learned how to prevent and eradicate problems, and managed to systematically bring to the surface not only what they accomplished, but also what they learned as they did it?  Well, here's how they can do it. An approach to coaching where mentors challenge a problem solver’s line of thought using quick coaching cycles.

Using Argument Mapping

An argument map is a visual representation of the structure of an argument. Its a great way to outline and develop your  critical thinkingand looking at both sides objectively. It is something we all need a little help with sometimes.

Scrum for Trello

"Here are a few pointers that might help you get started with Trello, or help improve your use of it for your Scrum projects."

Rally Portfolio Manager

SEP teamwork - Kanban tool for visual studio

One of the biggest problems with TFS is that it is difficult to visualize work.  SEP TeamWorks is a work item management tool that digitizes kanban.

With SEP TeamWorks you can do it all.. SEP TeamWorks lets you view, edit, and create work items for Team Foundation Server 2008, 2010, and 2012.

'Lean Coffee' - Run a lightweight, structured meeting

Are your meetings out of scope? Does your boss sets the agenda and there are urgent issues that everyone else knows the group needs to discuss, but they aren’t front-of-mind for the boss, so they’re not on the agenda?

 Learn how to use Lean Coffee to run a lightweight, structured, agenda-less meeting.  A meeting format where people build an agenda at the beginning of the meeting and talking about the important stuff .

Evolving to Multiban - Visualize all levels of work

With Kanban, a board is just one board to which the cards are pinned. With Multiban, a board is a slate of switchable data axes (or lanes), with custom intersections. Multiban, as the visual process management system, is presented by a set of views, reports, controls and boards that comply with any diversity, and any complexity of workflow, or organizational structure. It a visualization evolution.  Here it is: 

Don`t just ship software, make an impact! - Impact Mapping.

“Impact mapping can help you deliver projects that make an impact, not just ship software. It is a strategic planning technique that prevents organizations from getting lost while building products and delivering projects, by clearly communicating assumptions, helping teams align their activities with overall business objectives and make better road-map decisions.” It is a mind-map grown during a discussion facilitated by answering the following four questions: Why are we doing this? Who will be impacted by it? How should our actors' behavior change?

Learning from the Future -Activities for Project and Personal Coaching

Do you wish to practically know How to Influence your future (in a positive manner), …Find missing or unexpected details and Think outside of the box?

Futurespective is an incredibly positive perspective approach to get things done!

The following activates are great for preparing for an upcoming project or challenge. Those activities the activity guides the participants into the future, talk about all that could go wrong and what could be achieved following an action plan.

Team Working in Virtual Environment-Collaborative Challenges and Tips.

Nowadays it’s rare for companies not to have teams dispersed across countries, time zones and cultures. Since this environment is the present and will be the future we work in, managing global virtual teams becomes a necessity to helps the companies be more effective, make a real impact and maintain or even increase productivity. Virtualization is here to stay, and solutions are emerging everywhere. Here are some problems and solutions that will assist us to succeed with managing remote teams. Getting real with virtual teams should be easy otherwise it won’t work.

Stattys - Write & Slide

Meet Stattys, solves many of the issues we encounter while working with post-its.  Among other things Stattys can be easily used as a task board of any kind, taken to workshops, training, Lectures and team rooms.

Visual Thinking With Mind-Map Apps

Mind Maps are diagrams containing a central idea with branches for related topics.  There are a million and one uses for mind mapping. So if you need to solve a problem, study for a big exam,  brainstorm, plan the next big thing, one of these Mind Mapping Apps may be just what you need.

Team Foundation Server 2012 Reporting

Getting Started with Atlassian Greenhopper

This Roojoom is targeted at new Scrum and Kanban teams that are looking to get started quickly with  GreenHopper-a fine agile tool. This Roojoom  will explore the tool and methodologies.

Dialogue Mapping - Another Fine Collaborative Tool

“Dialogue Mapping is a radically inclusive facilitation process that creates a diagram or ‘maps' that during the discussion in a meeting, captures participants' comments as a meeting conversation unfolds. Dialogue Mapping creates forward progress in situations that have been stuck; it clears the way for robust decisions that last. It is effective because it works with the non-linear way humans really think, communicate, and make decisions…”

In this Roojoom will cover the technique a long with some examples and real “how-to’s”.

Enjoy :)