Episode 140: Squad, Squad, Squad, Squad

How to tell how well your team is doing

• Happiness
• Productivity
• Informed (communication)
• Needed a break?
• Learned/improved?
• How many times did you feel pain?
• Trust
• Feeling important/useful
• Self-organizing
• Have you tried “all” the Agile practices?
• Amos: team complains about chairs

https://labs.spotify.com/2014/09/16/squad-health-check-model/

Picks

John

• Empathy Map exercise, https://www.solutionsiq.com/resource/blog-post/what-is-an-empathy-map/

Lee

• Plickers - App for doing live anonymous polls, https://get.plickers.com/

Craig

• TCR (test && commit || revert) - article by Kent Beck, https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/test-commit-revert-870bbd756864