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The further into the year I get, the slower my sprint velocity is becoming.  I'm worried that the excitement and inspiration that comes at the end of a round of A uld Lang Syne  has melted into Playstation and television. So I'll make a real effort on the next sprint in the hope that I just need to get into the groove again.  Excuses follow... It's been a busy couple of weeks in work. We've had an exciting restructure of the digital team and the first week of my sprint saw me attending interviews for one of the new roles - Digital Content Producer. Week two was packed with brand and tone of voice training, along with ways of working meeting. On one hand, I really like that we've been given the chance to feed into the digital strategy, but on the other, it's been very time consuming and stressful.  Funnily enough, after spending a long time worrying about how sprints work in the office, I haven't felt the desire to work on my own sprint. I ...

Back in 2013 I spoke to some friends about their embarrassing or erotic, first or last, hilarious or heartfelt kisses. Oh and I recorded the conversations and turned them into a short series of podcasts called Kiss&Tell . These were a fun way to talk to friends about embarrassing or erotic, first or last, hilarious or heartfelt kisses. Oh and I recorded the conversations and turned them into a podcast. I never expected them to be widely shared as I produced them for fun and to practice telling audio stories. I'd like to start telling audio stories again and I'd like your help to do it. I have a great idea along similar lines to Kiss&Tell  and I would love to hear your relationship stories. Do you want to share? People who contributed to Kiss&Tell  said that it was great fun to make and that they felt good for sharing their story. As with Kiss&Tell , I will not mention anyone's name so you can remain anonymous (to all who don't recognise your ...

I've taken it a bit easier this sprint - and I think this is something I need to bear in mind with future sprints. It's all very well completing lots of stories each sprint, but I think I need to be a bit braver with the tasks that I assign to myself. I also need to give myself more specific tasks. The whole reason I want to live 2017 through a series of sprints is that I want to build new stuff, without the anxiety that comes when faced with a task that on the face of it looks impossible. Take a look at the backlog for my second sprint. There are three items on there that are too vague. Phrases like "figure out purpose" and "brainstorm" are too easy for me to claim that I've done something. I can easily pretend that I've 'figured out the purpose' of my CV website after I've thought about it a bit and drawn a couple of wireframes in my notebook. Instead I should have worded the task in a way that helped me to understand what a co...