Wolfram Hempel dabbled in all sorts of finance and design related fields before specialising in realtime technology. He is a co-founder of deepstreamHub, co-host of the Berlin Realtime Web Meetup and teaches the odd class at JavaScript Kurse Berlin.
If you’ve ever worked in an agile environment, chances are you’ve had your share of “retrospectives” — meetings where people write what made them “glad,” “mad” or “sad” onto different-colored notes, post them onto a board, arrange them in groups and — most importantly — talk about them.
These meetings are straightforward, as long as everyone is in the same room. But if you’re working with a locally distributed team, things can get a bit tricky. Let’s address this by creating a virtual version of our board to allow team members in different locations to hold their retrospective just as if they were in the same room.
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