Archive for April, 2012

There is so much I need to know that I didn’t know that I need to know – notes after reading “Information Diet” book

During 33rd Degree conference in Cracow O’Reilly had its stand with books in very attractive prices and similarly to previous year I couldn’t resist to buy something. This time I decided to get “The Information Diet” by Clay Johnson.

The A Case for Conscious Consumption subtitle looked very promising as I, as probably most of people working in IT, have problem with too many sources to read, check and analyze to extract information that are relevant and worth to spend my time on it. And I hoped that this book would help me to solve this issue.

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Tools for retrospectives in distributed teams

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In our company we work remotely from different locations across Poland. And because we work using agile, after each iteration (in my project usually every 2 weeks) we have a sprint retrospective when we share our insights about what was good and bad in the last sprint. Then we vote on minuses, discuss them and try to extract action items to perform so those problem are less likely to recur in the future.

Standard retrospective is easy , you sit next to other people from your project and simply discuss. But when there are hundreds of kilometers between team members, you need a tool (except Skype of course :) ) that will allow to conduct a successful retro. Below I share my opinions about three tools that might be essential for distributed teams and distributed retrospectives.

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