Monday, October 22, 2018

Sprint Retrospective Anti patterns
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1. There is no Retro
2. Retro is cancelled or postponed
3. Rushed retrospective
4. What should remain within the room during discussions goes out
5. Team members whine instead of constructive discussion. These contribute to the bias that agile is not working
6. Team does not check for items from previous retro.
7. PO absent for retrospectives
8. Not all team members participate.
9. No minutes / notes during retro
10. Retros are endless cycles of blame, fingerpointing, failure
11. Bullying
12. Stakeholders participate in retros (they aren't supposed to).
13. No adequate space; rooms booked adhoc
14. Line managers participate
15. Someone outside team requests for peek into retros.

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Is your team really a team?

Source: http://www.viktorcessan.com/2018/10/the-first-question-to-ask-when-building-teams-is-this-really-a-team/

It’s crucial to pay attention to whether or not a working group is a team because it dictates what kind of structures to build and how to support the team. We see organizations spend tremendous amounts of energy in trying to coach Temporary Alliances and Pseudo-Teams as if they were teams, when in fact the kind of support those working groups needs is very different from what a team needs.


Visualizing Next Word Prediction - How to LLMs Work?

 https://bbycroft.net/llm