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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/

    Agile 2012

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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

    + /

    Agile 2012

    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

    Agile 2012

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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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