personal retrospectives
DESCRIPTION
A personal retrospective is a regularly practiced ritual, during which you take time and think about yourself. You reflect on what happened and what is currently happening in your life. You try to learn from these experiences and derive new goals and insights for yourself.To do a personal retrospective you typically have a set of exercises you do. These exercises help you to find the information and extract knowledge and understanding from them.TRANSCRIPT
Personal Retrospectives
Questions
What did I do
well?
What should I
do differently?
What did I
learn?
What puzzles
me?
Anatomy
Set the Stage Gather Data Generate Insights What to do Closing
Preparations - Set the Stage
Music - Set the Stage
Data Source – Gather Data
Timeline – Gather Data
Timeline – Generate Insights
Action Items – What to do
Retrospective Letter - Closing
Cocktail - Closing
History
Retrospective 2009
Work Retrospective
1st Quarter 2010
2nd Quarter 2010
X
3rd Quarter 2010
Retrospective 2011
1st Quarter 2011
X
2nd Quarter 2011
3rd Quarter 2011
Retrospective 2011
Personal Retrospectives
Resources• Kerth NL. Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Reviews• Derby E and Larsen D. Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams
Great• The Agile Retrospectives Resources Wiki (
http://retrospectivewiki.org/)• SE Radio Episode 105: Retrospectives with Linda Rising (
http://www.se-radio.net/2008/07/episode-105-retrospectives-with-linda-rising/)
• Personal Retrospective: Self-Acquintance and Agility by A. Nies (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Personal-Retrospectives)
ImagesWinnie-the-Pooh Milne et al. Pu der Bär. Dressler. Zürich 2009Questions http://www.flickr.com/photos/eoana1/5540490523Questions http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/
commons/0/05/Rodin-Denker-Kyoto.jpgAnatomy http://www.flickr.com/photos/basicx/5278406071Music/Set the Stage http://www.flickr.com/photos/tangysd/6816262905Logos/Gather Data Google Inc / Remember The Milk Pty LtdTimeline/Gather Data http://www.flickr.com/photos/chanceprojects/3323969624Timeline/Generate Insigths http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaycross/2954255026Goals/What to do http://www.flickr.com/photos/bogdansuditu/2377844553Letter/Closing http://www.flickr.com/photos/gbaku/3770390554Cocktail/Closing http://www.flickr.com/photos/fibroblast/830630641History http://www.flickr.com/photos/41260125@N05/6442838337
Other Images MS PowerPoint ClipArt Gallery
Johannes Thönes
http://blog.jthoenes.nethttp://blog.jthoenes.net/personal-retrospectives/
http://twitter.com/jthoenes
Personal Retrospectives