Agile Tour 2010 - Pune

Make your Retrospectives Fun and Effective

Archana Joshi & Vijay Chandra Katte

Wipro Consulting Servicesarchana.joshi@wipro.comvijay.chandra@wipro.com

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Sounds Familiar ?

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Why Retrospectives?

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Retrospectives – Common problems

1. To Share or Not to Share

2. Switch on the listening mode

3. Distributed teams

4. The blame game goes on and on

5. All Talk – No Action

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Effectiveness ….

1. Time-boxed Retrospectives

2. Structured Agenda

3. Prioritize the Retrospective Items

4. Monitor & Measure Retrospective Index

5. Pigs and Chickens in Retrospectives too

6. For distributed teams – have facilitator at each location

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Hidden to Reveal

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Ishikawa Diagrams

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Picking a Name

Archana

VijayJeffson

Jason

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Round Robin

Team A

Location A

Team B

Location B

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Mad, Sad, Glad

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Questions ?