During the retrospective we can use different techniques to identify improvements for teams. 

Speed Boat is one of the “Innovation games“ like Product Box, Remember the Future or Buy a Feature, … It is an ideal game for conducting a retrospective.
Speedboat is an interactive, collective and fun way to identify constraints, obstacles, problems with our product or our project, then to prioritize actions in order to remove them!

We have created a 3D model of the Speed Boat game to use during your retrospective. In this 3D model you build your goal, what holds you off and what drives you forward as a team towards the built goal.

I recently attended a 3 day class on Sociocracy 3.0 (S3) by James Priest and Liliana David. This pattern language, based on Sociocratic and Agile principles, radically challenges a number of behaviours we see in companies and collaborative structures. 

One of the recurring questions throughout the training was: "How do you make sure everyone is heard in the decision making patterns described in S3?". The answer seems very simple: Artful Participation (and an observant facilitator).

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Lately I've been seeing the classic skill matrix used more and more in companies in order to create teams and identify knowledge gaps. The tool is excellent for that, but recently I've come across a few modifications of the technique that make it so much more powerful, and to my surprise it was hard to find detailed information about these modifications online. Hence this blogpost.

The classic skill matrix and forming a team

The classic skill matrix works like this: