Coaching teams through change

@rachelcdavies

RETROSPECTIVE FORMATS

Rachel Davies

@rachelcdavies @unrulyco

Cut-down list of questions •  What went well? •  What didn’t go well? •  Actions

Risk: team judge past events rather than thinking how to react next time around!

TYPICAL “AGILE” RETROSPECTIVE

TIP: MIX HI-TECH, LO-TECH

TIP: CONTINUOUS TIMELINE

IN USE

TIP: SUBGROUPS

FORMAT: DRAGS & DRIVERS

Work in pairs if you can sketch your <team or company> as a cartoon superhero ..

what are your

●  Super powers?

●  Weak points?

●  Who do we need as our sidekick?

FORMAT: SUPERHERO

FORMAT: QUADRANTS

Where does our time go:- •  Happiness vertical axis •  Time taken horizontal axis •  Pick 1 topic per quadrant

FORMAT: QUADRANTS

FORMAT: EMOTIONS SEISMOGRAPH

Mood during past weeks:- •  Happiness vertical axis •  Time horizontal axis

FORMAT: MAINS & SIDES

FORMAT: PICTURE ROUND

FORMAT: APPRECIATIONS & COMMISERATIONS

FORMAT: STAR FISH

FORMAT: FUTURESPECTIVE

FORMAT: DIALOG SHEETS

TRY: END OF STORY RETRO

TRY: DROP THE TIMEBOX

TRY: GET OUTSIDE

Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner

Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Reviews by Norman L. Kerth

Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Esther Derby & Diana Larsen

Innovation Games by Luke Hohmann

Collaboration Explained by Jean Tabaka

Agile Coaching by Rachel Davies & Liz SedleyThe Retrospective Handbook by Patrick Kua Retrospectives for Organizational Change by Jutta EcksteinGetting the value out of Agile Retrospectives by Luis Gonçalves & Ben Linders

http://www.retrospectives.com

http://xp123.com/xplor/xp0509/index.shtml

http://agileretrospectivewiki.org/

http://www.plans-for-retrospectives.com/

http://www.methodsandtools.com/archive/archive.php?id=124 Dialog Sheets

http://www.culturesync.net/happiness Mountains & Valleys exercise

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