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Checkpoint: ceremony without cargo cult

Prove you can diagnose empty ritual and redesign it. Deliver a short “Agile health” note for a real or fictional team.

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Health note

2 pages max. Cover: which events create feedback, which don’t, proposed DoD, one Retro experiment.

  • Sprint Goal quality: clear / mushy
  • Daily: plan sync vs status theater
  • Review: stakeholders present? Increment demoed?
  • WIP / cycle time awareness
Health noteDrag stickies · tap for tips
Study mapDrag stickies · tap for tipsKeep it shortdrag · tap →Name the waitdrag · tap →Scope locatorsdrag · tap →Trace when stuckdrag · tap →One browser firstdrag · tap →Isolate statedrag · tap →Assert the UIdrag · tap →Retry wiselydrag · tap →Seed datadrag · tap →Close the loopdrag · tap →Keep it shortdrag · tap →Name the waitdrag · tap →Scope locatorsdrag · tap →Trace when stuckdrag · tap →One browser firstdrag · tap →Isolate statedrag · tap →Pathwise hackdrag · tap →Health notedrag · tap →Try thisdrag · tap →Follow the dashed drag · tap →

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Publish the note. Get one peer +1 or written critique.

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Chapter learning outcomes
  • Diagnosis
  • Experiment design

Clear these before you leave

Side quest

Run one experiment

Try the Retro change for a full sprint (or one week on Kanban). Log what changed.