raving retrospectives
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Raving Retrospectives -
Innovation Games & other
techniques to facilitate creative
retrospectives
Agile 2012
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Kate Megaw, CSP, PMP
The Braintrust Consulting GroupBS Information Management from Queens University, Belfast 10 years project management experience Agile coach, trainer, and consultant
Brian M. Rabon, CST, PMP
Brian M. Rabon, CST, PMP
President, The Braintrust
Consulting Group
BS CS from Auburn University
MS EE from UAB
CSM, CSD, CSP, CST, PMP
15 years of software
development experience
Agile coach, trainer, and
consultant
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Table talk
Table TalkTurn to a partner at your table & discuss:
1 thing that worked well at your latest retro
1 thing that didnt work so well
As a session attendee,
I want to understand what a retrospective is,
so that I can understand the benefit of doing
them regularly
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What is a retrospective?
dictionary.com directed to the past; contemplative of past
situations, events, etc.
looking or directed backward.
Wikipedia
generally means to take a look back at
events that already have taken place
Why do we doretrospectives?
Inspect & Adapt
What worked well
What didnt work well
What can we improve
Retrospectives help teams evengreat oneskeep improving Derby& Larson
Real problems can lead to Real
Solutions
Why wouldnt you do them
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Traditional Lessons
Learned / Postmortems? End of project
Filed
Scrum Gathering 2012
http://www.implementingscrum.com/2007/09/04/scary-team-retrospectives-part-one/
As a session attendee,
I want to understand how to run a traditionalretrospective,
so that I can see the main way we gatherfeedback from the team.
Traditional lessonslearned/postmortems? End of project
Filed
http://www.implementingscrum.com/2007/09/04/scary-team-retrospectives-part-one/
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Retrospectives
Get everyone saying a couple ofwords
Couple of words to describe last sprint
Couple of words to describe how you feel
Sprint temperature
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Traditional LessonsLearned / Postmortems?
End of project
Filed
Scrum Gathering 2012
http://www.implementingscrum.com/2007/09/04/scary-team-retrospectives-part-one/
As a session attendee,
I want to understand how to run creativeretrospectives,
so that the team can have fun and receive qualityfeedback from each other.
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Agile 2012
Speed Boat
Innovation Games
What is driving your boat (Sprint,
project, or Agile adoption forward)
What are the anchors slowing it
down?
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Speed Boat
Sprint 4
Agile 2012
Speed Boat
Agile Island - what does it look like?
Sprint 4
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Starfish retrospective
http://www.thekua.com/ran
t/2006/03/the-
retrospective-starfish/
Agile 2012
Keep Doing Stop Doing
Start Doing
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Starfish retrospectiveAgile 2012
Learning Matrix Retrospective
Agile Retrospectives: Making Good
Teams Great. Esther Derby, Diana Larsen
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Learning MatrixAgile 2012
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The sprint
Creative RetrospectivesAgile 2012 Conference
Speed Boat
Starfish
Learning Matrix 15 minutes
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Retrospectives
Look for similar
problems and
group together
Decompose
Put in team room
Scrum Gathering 2012Agile 2012
Question BasedRetrospectives
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Retrospective Cookies
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What was the most
effective thing you did this
Sprint, and why was it so
successful?
What was our Teams
biggest impediment this
Sprint?
What was the most helpful
thing the Scrum Master did
this Sprint? Why was it
helpful
Team Questions & Sharing
Have question jar on a desk in the
team room and every time a team
member thinks of a good retro
question put it in the jar
Before the retrospective, the
ScrumMaster wraps them aroundcandy bars!
Share your questions with other
teams & vice versa!
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http://agileretrospectivewiki
.org/index.php?title=Pillars_
Of_Agile_Spiderweb_Retros
pective
Spider Web Retrospective
/ Team Radar
Post-It Notes
Average them if want
Join lines if want
Team DynamicsCode Stability
?
???
Technical DebtCoordination with
other teams
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Traditional Lessons
Learned / Postmortems? End of project
Filed
Scrum Gathering 2012
http://www.implementingscrum.com/2007/09/04/scary-team-retrospectives-part-one/
As a session attendee,
I want to understand how to conduct an effectiveretrospective,
so that the team can get the full benefit from themeeting.
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Pair share
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Beat the clockRetro PlanningTiming
Plan attendees
Team / PO ?
Schedule recurring
appointments
Adhere to time box
Rotate facilitator/guest facilitator
Include output from last retrospective
Flipchart paper/dot voting
Input from remote/offshore team members
prior to meeting
Retrospective Ideas
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Stick to your time box
End on a high note
Debrief at end of retrospective
If you didnt write it, dont
present it
Revisit decomposed item for
team to work on
Feed your team
Consider location & room layout
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Burning questions
Agile Retrospectives:
Making Good Teams Great
Esther Derby, Diana Larsen
Resources
Agile Retrospectives: Making Good
Teams Great. Esther Derby, Diana Larsen
http://agileretrospectivewiki.org/index.php?ti
tle=Main_Page
http://www.thekua.com/rant/2006/03/the-retrospective-starfish/
Scrum Gathering 2012
http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Esther+Derby%22http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Diana+Larsen%22http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Esther+Derby%22http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Esther+Derby%22http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Diana+Larsen%22http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Diana+Larsen%22http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Esther+Derby%22 -
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Closing circle
Closing
Celebration
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