Bad Coffee, Good Will

During the course of our most recent release, my team decided to use the theme "Coffee Flavors You'd Never Want To Try" for naming their sprints.  (We try to make sprint naming fun.  Can you tell?)

The team came up with some absolutely disgusting coffee flavors: Salmon Roast, Moldy Sunrise and Pickled Onions, to name a few.  Toward the end of the release, I thought it would be fun to make these coffee flavors a reality.

I bought some 1 lb. kraft paper coffee bags, the kind with the window on the front and the metal twist tie at the top.  I also bought ten pounds of roasted coffee beans in bulk.  I put a pound of coffee in each bag and then, with the help of Bing Image Search, created a label for each of the coffee names my team came up with.

The bags were put on display in the conference room where we had our Release Retrospective and it was a great surprise for most of them.  (I'd let one of my guys in on the idea weeks earlier, but he had no idea I'd gone through with it.)  Everyone got to take home a pound of coffee that they'd named.

This was great fun, the team loved it, and I spent just under $100 to get it done.  The photos below were taken in the conference room just before the team showed up for their retrospective.

What fun things have YOU done for your team's Release Retrospective and Celebration?  Use the comments below.