by Dhaval Panchal | Jun 12, 2012 | Coaching, Experience, Stories
“Hi, I’m a coach and I am here to help” My spine stiffens and I can feel my hair on back of my neck. “Thanks, K” I respond tepidly K: “I have been promoted, I am now your coach. I will do what it takes to help your team” Me: “we need all the help we can get” ‘When...
by Dhaval Panchal | Jun 10, 2010 | Experience, Facilitation Exercises, Tools & Artifacts
This is a simple technique with a marketing twist to its name. This title came to me while coaching a team that was struggling to behave cross functionally and were paralyzed at delivering working software at the end of their sprint. It is a simple mental discipline...
by Dhaval Panchal | Jun 18, 2009 | Facilitation Exercises, Product
This is a variation of “Value Flow” exercise that Sanjeev Augustine did at Scrumgathering 2009 in Orlando. I found this exercise very useful to demonstrate the benefits of prioritization and lower batch sizes. I have facilitated a variation on this...
by Dhaval Panchal | Jul 15, 2008 | Coaching, Facilitation Exercises, leadership, Systems Thinking
A few months ago, I was facilitating sprint retrospective for a multi-cultural team that had members of different national origins (UK, South Africa, Angola and United States). We started gathering information regarding their first sprint. I realized that this team...
