Agile retrospectives v100
- 1. “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards” Kierkegaard
- 2. Rui Barreira Senior Project Manager | Agile Coach @ Critical Software Co-Founder @ Lean Coffee Portugal Project Advisor @ porto.data pt.linkedin.com/in/ruimbarreira/ rui.m.barreira@gmail.com @ruimbarreira www.leancoffeeportugal.com
- 4. Different Names Different Contexts Same Objective!
- 5. Its all about VALUE & Continuous Improvement! Everyone must fill safe to participate Inspect and Adapt
- 6. Things to repeat Learn, ditch, adapt Risky stuff Improve, Improve, Improve
- 7. Plan
- 8. What is the context surrounding the session?
- 9. What is the goal for this session?
- 10. How long will the session be?
- 11. Where will we hold the session?
- 12. What’s the basic structure?
- 13. Set the stage
- 14. Help the people to focus on the session. Help them express what they want from the session. Help them set aside blaming & judgement
- 15. Check-In
- 16. • In one or two words, what is happening for you right now? • In a word or two, what are your hopes for the retrospective? Ask a question that everyone can answer with a word or short phrase • You may thank each person (be sure to thank every person if you do). Refrain from offering evaluative comments such as “good” or “wonderful” Go around the room listening to each person’s answer
- 17. Focus On / Focus Off
- 18. Draw attention to the Focus On/Focus Off poster Form small groups, with no more than four people per group Ask each group to discuss what their two words mean and what What behaviors they represent. Each group reports on their discussion to the whole team. Ask people whether they are willing to stay in the left column Source: Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
- 19. Take the Photo
- 20. Help the team gauge on a variety of measures Help team members recall their experiences during the iteration
- 21. Team Radar
- 22. Introduce the activity Team member draws a dot in the graph. Discuss about how the factors affect the work Save the completed flip chart graph. Run the activity again two or three iterations later Source: Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
- 23. Brainstorm
- 24. Generate a large number of ideas and filter them against a defined set of criteria. Discover underlying conditions that contribute to an issue Help team members find what’s significant in their data.
- 25. Learning Matrix
- 26. Source: Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
- 27. Five Whys
- 28. One person asks the other(s) why an event or problem occurred. In response to the answer, the questioner asks why that happened. Record the responses that come out of the fourth or fifth ‘Why?’
- 31. Form pairs to generate ideas Write them on post-its and set them on the wall Order them Source: Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
- 32. SMART Goals
- 33. Get the actions the team suggests Pass them through the SMART filter Reframe the actions Source: Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
- 35. Appreciations
- 36. Now, Go Home, do your RESTROSPECTIVES! and Thank you very much for your attention