Retrospectives…accidentally

a silent retrospective

workshoppresented by David J Bland

2011

about meintroduced to agile in 2002

currently on startup #3

passionate about failing fast

speaker / writer / coach

whyretrospectives?

arguably the single most important aspect of your

agile philosophy

crucial forinspecting

&adapting

whysilent work?

we often talkpast one another

“the single biggest problem in

communication is the illusion that it

has taken place”

-George Bernard Shaw

we fall into the

3 column trap

stop / start / keepkeep / drop / addmad / sad / glad

same as / more of / less of

writing uncoversquiet brilliance

let’s begin

how many of you have facilitateda retrospective?

( show of hands )

how happy were you with your

last retrospective?fist = unhappy

five = very happy

( fist to five - temperature reading )

with regards to pastretrospectives…

write what has workedwell on the green post-its

write what has not workedwell on the red post-its

( silent writing - gathering data )

as a group, place all of the post-its on your designated wall

as a group, organize your post-its into similar clusters

draw a circle aroundeach cluster and label it

( affinity sorting - generating insights )

each of you have 3 orange dot stickers

stick them next to the label(s)

for which you’d like to explore deeper

( dot voting )

write the label with the

most dots in the centerof your 2nd sheet

of wall paper

draw a circlearound

your label

as a group,draw a mind map

representing ways youcan use this label in

your next retrospective

( silent mind mapping )

show & tell

questions

Return On Time Invested

(ROTI) Exercise

each of you have 1 red dot sticker

at your chair

place it on theROTI graph before

you leave this evening

( closing the retrospective )

theend

presented by David J Bland

2011

creditsLyssa Adkins:

Coaching Agile Teams

Esther Derby & Diana Larsen:Agile Retrospectives – Making Good Teams Great

Jean Tabaka:Collaboration Explained

Rachel Davies & Liz Sedley:Agile Coaching

bonus

silent workit isn’t

just aboutretrospectives…

CollaborativeWriting

Tobias Mayerhttp://businesscraftsmanship.com/

CollaborativeDesign

Jeff Pattonhttp://www.agileproductdesign.com/

thank you!

@davidjbland