Small celebrations

Hey Alex, 

We have a few teams in our Agile Room and we drew a "Story Jar" on the Whiteboard. Every time a team finishes a story you write it on a post-it, ring the cowbell, put the post-it in the "jar" and we have a saying we yell out. 

There's almost thirty of us in a room and it can get pretty noisy but everyone loves it. 

Good luck!

Why not celebrate your successes in each Sprint Review, when stakeholders can be invited to participate as well? They should also be allowed to celebrate the valuable increment which has just been delivered.

Is there anything particularly motivating for the team? They could do a 'punch card' for every 'x' Sprint Goals achieved they get pizza, breakfast, or something? 

They could also tie celebrations to certain quality goals or retro items they set for themselves. 

I also agree with Ian that it's important to celebrate the 'Done' work in the Sprint Review. Sometimes the focus can be overwhelmingly on the 'undone' work instead of successes. 

I tend to agree with Ian that the Sprint Review is a good opportunity for the team to celebrate their accomplishments over the course of the Sprint. However, I'd add that the Sprint Retrospective may also be a good place to celebrate some other wins that may not be of interest to the external stakeholders of the team. I think that celebrating the accomplishments here is simply less disruptive and more consistent with the ideas of the Sprint Goal and team commitments.

Just my opinion, as much as I encourage celebrating victories, I also am not a huge fan of too much fanfare. It’s perhaps my personality but I think it sometimes takes the seriousness away from things. Perhaps a bi-weekly gathering to celebrate talent and hard work is definitely okay with me, but not everyday. It tends to become common place.