running a retrospective (coachatplay)

Running a Retrospective

Team Facilitation

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Scrum Framework

Roles• Product

Owner• ScrumMaster• Team

Rituals• Daily Scrum• Sprint

Planning• Sprint Review• Sprint

Retrospective

Artifacts• Product

Backlog• Sprint

Backlog• Burndown

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Scrum Rituals

Sprint Planning

Daily Scrum

Meeting

Sprint Revie

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Basic Questions

What worked well last Sprint that we should continue doing?

What didn’t work well last Sprint that we should stop doing?

What should we start doing?

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Retrospective Guidelines

After every sprint Whole team participation Time-boxed Formatted and Facilitated

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Time to Inspect and Adapt State the Goal (General or Specific) Gather Data Discuss Data Action Plan Retro the Retro Close

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ScrumMaster as Facilitator

“Your team is only as strong as its quietest member”

- Jean Tabaka, Rally

http://www.agileiq.org/

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Retrospective Goal

Commit to a set of achievable action items in the next

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Retrospective Flow

Gather Data

Discuss and

Refine

ConfirmAction Items

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Gather Data (Sprint)

Silent Brainstorming (w/ post its) Time boxed (15-30min) 3-4 categories

Start, Stop, Continue, Shouts Strong, Weak, Improving

http://www.selfishprogramming.com/2009/12/08/agile-winter-school/

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Gather Data (Release) Timeline-ing Time boxed Silent Brainstorming Draw out a release timeline (with sprints) Gives the team members 3 colors to make

observations on Positive Negative Neutral

Draw the “happiness curve”

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Discuss and Refine

Time boxed Walk through each comment in the

Data Gathering exercise Find common themes and categories Brainstorm actionable items for each categories

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Confirm Action Items

Time boxed Voting Give everyone 5-10 dot stickers Ask them to spend their dots on their

favorite actionable items

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Close

Review most popular action items from voting

Confirm team commitment on action items You may decide to only take the top 2-5

depending on your team size Remember to carry them over to

Sprint Planning as Inputs

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Retro the Retro (yes, I’m serious) Time boxed (fast) 0-4 scale

0 = The time spent in this retro was a loss of my time and I gained nothing (negative)

2 = I gained what I spent in time (neutral) 4 = The time I spent was more than worth what I

got in return (awesome) If anything comes back 2 or lower, invite

that person to comment. ScrumMaster should take the feedback and

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How is your Retrospective going? Do you have action items? Is everyone engaged and giving

ideas? How often does the team follow

through on the action items?

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Resources

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