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Shame Card 2008

Our new shame card:  If you break the build somebody writes you up on Twitter where the world can mock you.



No, we don't really do this, but... 

 


Posted Mon, Aug 11 2008 3:55 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

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Greg wrote re: Shame Card 2008
on Mon, Aug 11 2008 5:44 PM

It's people like you you suck all the joy out of a room of developers.  

Jeremy D. Miller wrote re: Shame Card 2008
on Mon, Aug 11 2008 5:56 PM

Greg,

That was a joke.  You understand a joke, right?

Robz wrote re: Shame Card 2008
on Mon, Aug 11 2008 6:57 PM

Nice. I still have a rabies toy for breaking the build over three weeks ago.

www.thinkgeek.com/.../6708

IainMH wrote re: Shame Card 2008
on Tue, Aug 12 2008 7:53 AM

We have 'The Dragon of Shame'.  If you break the build, The Dragon lives on your desk until someone else breaks the build.

The toys in kinder eggs have to be useful for something...

Joe wrote re: Shame Card 2008
on Tue, Aug 12 2008 12:53 PM

I know this is a joke Jeremy, and I know it's all in the sense of humor , but doesn't this go against agile teams in the sense of not pointing the blame but trying to fix the problem?

Jeff Tucker wrote re: Shame Card 2008
on Tue, Aug 12 2008 3:43 PM

I used to use a mouse ball that we just referred to as "the ball."  If someone broke the build or something like that, we'd take "the ball" over, put it on their desk, and say "I think you may have dropped this."  They'd keep it until someone else broke the build.  I would also give "the ball" to other people depending on the circumstances.  It was a good tool

Kerry wrote re: Shame Card 2008
on Tue, Aug 12 2008 8:29 PM

Never underestimate the power of shame in a self organizing team.  It's the same tool that makes "what I accomplished yesterday" question effective in daily scrums.

James Gregory wrote re: Shame Card 2008
on Wed, Aug 13 2008 8:18 AM

The ability to joke about something like this is a sign of a great team. If you can't see the fun in this, then your team members are probably a bit too sensitive.

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