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Scrum Master essentialsRetrospectives



Retrospective essentials

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What is a retrospective

A retrospective is a joint effort by thewhole project team to make continuous

improvement within the LEAN journey.

It helps the team to look back at the last

iteration and have the team insight.

The team members will answer

essentially the three questions below What went well

What can be improved

What are the impediments/obstacles

Team will Identify three main topics they

want to improve in next Sprint.

Retrospectives takes ½ hour and 1 day

Can be structured into 5 sections (Cf .agenda on the right picture)

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Setting the stage

Setting working rules, Expectations, goal

Establish a set of behavior that willsupport the team in having productive

discussions.

Establish that team members are

responsible for monitoring their

interactions.

Provide suggestions for day-to-day

working agreements if the team doesnµt

already have them

Don¶t forget to ask the team members: What are your expectations from this

retrospective

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Gather Data - with post-it

oderator distributes post-its to each

team members

Each team members gives his/her

feedback on Post-its

Different post-it color can be used to

answer the three questions

What went well

What can be improved

What are the impediments/obstacles

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Generate Insights ² make clusters

oderator groups similar feedback in

clusters on the Glad Flip chart

Sad flipchart are topics which make

team members sad but is not that

urgent

Mad flip chart are topics which needto be addressed

Each team member sticks his/her post-it

on the flip-chart

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Generate Insights ² with voting points

Once each team member has stickedhis/her ³Sad´ post-it on the flip-chart

Moderator groups similar feedback in

clusters on the Glad Flip chart

Moderator according to the number of

clusters give a certain number of points,

here 5 points to put on any post-its

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Activities to Decide What to Do

Action Planning (³brainstorm andprioritize´):

Have everybody on the team generate

suggestions f or actions individually (in the

f ormat above)

Then build pairs, discussing their

actions, prioritizing and reducing to e.g.

f our

Then build groups of 4 who discuss the

actions f rom the pairs, prioritizing and

reducing the set even f urther

Repeat, until whole group discusses the

remaining action items that turned out to

be the most important ones



Return on Time Invested (ROTI)

At the end of the retrospective

gauge the eff ectiveness of the session

f rom the team members¶ perspectives.

At the end of the retrospective, ask

team members to give f eedback on

whether they spent their time well.

Time needed: 10 min

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