Over seven years of running Story Points workshops, I've seen the same pattern: teams learn the technique, apply it for a few sprints, then gradually drift back to old habits. At my current scale — 47 teams, around 400 people in IT — 60% use Story Points, 40% don't. What's interesting: those 60% who do … Continue reading 5 Reasons Why Your Story Points Aren’t Working (And What to Do About It)
It's been an extremely fruitful Atlassian Summit 2018 in Barcelona! Main purpose was to speak about Distributed Teams, however the atmosphere was so cheerful and friendly, that it was more like a fireside chat, even given that my speech was the closing one.
I spoke with Ben Linders of InfoQ (thrilled to be published at that website!) about challenges and communication patterns for Distributed Teams, uncovering bits of my Atlassian Summit 2018 speech. The biggest challenge of distributed teams is communication, which is essential for establishing ground rules on collaboration. Shifting working hours to accommodate each other and team liaisons … Continue reading My Q&A for InfoQ on Keeping Distributed Teams in Sync
Hey guys, good news - Minsk has it's own Atlassian User Group now, me & StiltSoft kicked out the first event, gathered 60 RSVP's in just one week, and had an amazing time in the beautiful city of Minsk, Belarus! Hosted an event in an awesome Eventspace.by at the old factory! AUG Minsk, SkuVault-Jira - Speech … Continue reading Minsk AUG Hosted!
Recently I hosted Minsk Atlassian User Group, where I shared our experience on migrating to Stride and gave the analogy between Stride, and Russian word 'Stradai' (-> eng.: 'Suffer'). I'll explain the analogy later. Hence the 'Napalm Death' song 'Suffer' joke on the first slide 🙂
Given that a lot of people use Telegram as a corporate messenger, and given all of the telegram-blocking happening in Russia currently, it's pretty relevant to write about alternatives. We at SkuVault migrated due to the need of user control, but migration experience is relevant to many other teams.
So as you know my speciality is distributed teams 🙂 This post is about what changes does the agile communication face (and scrum in particular), when it's adjusted to the distributed teams. This is my experience, I don't assume this is a silver bullet, but such approach works for me for the last 5 years … Continue reading Agile Communication in Distributed Teams (with no overlapping hours)
Marat Kiniabulatov | Agile Coach, OKR, PMO 