A highly amusing meetup this time around due to the top topic! See what we discussed:
- An agile adventure! Transitioning.
- PI planning was OK
- Distributed teams
- Timebox-challenged
- SAFe
- Load rate or ideal hours = 8 per day
- Pair programming banned
- Teams commit to “stretch goal” work
- Timeboxing rookies
- It’s a value thing
- Related to maturity
- Audio cues
- Timers
- Timebox aggressively
- Retro it
- How do you make tech debt visible to the business?
- Can distributed agile teams be successful?
- State of Agile report, 80% of teams distributed
- Scott Berkin book – The Year Without Pants
- Timezone difference
- How do you deal with disgruntled employees?
- Should non-story tasks (bugs, engineering, research) be given story points?
- Unconference Canberra 2016 overview
- Should Lean Coffee change time and locations?
- SAFe Scrum versus agile
- What do you do with stinky work?
- Kanban versus Scrum. Cagefight!
- If you have a hammer… overuse/misuse of tools
The topics discussed and associated notes are in bold.
Lots of topics were proposed and we only discussed a few this week. The first topic was so amusing we kept voting to talk about it more…
