Your RetrospectiveSucks!

...and what you can do about it(Marc Löffler, @marcloeffler)

What do youexpect to takehome from thissession?

RetrospectivesSuck!

• Talking about the same things again and again

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• Repetition

Repetition

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• No effect

No effect

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First Element:

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Second element: More Fun

Third element: System Thinking

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Hypothesis

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Alternative phase model

More Fun

Retrospective Cookies

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• Cookie Rezept

150 g Wheat flour50 g Almond, kibbled1 Prise Salt3 große Eggs, only the egg white250 g Sugar100 g Butter, soft3 Tr. Bitter almond oil

Change thelocation

The power of metaphors

Benefits of using metaphors

• Thinking outside of the box• New, creativeideas• „Distance“ toreal events• Fun!

Soccer Retrospective

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Whatsoccer

terms comeinto your mind?

Imagine your last sprintwas a soccer

game of 90 minutes

Next steps…

•Game Analysis•Prepare forthe nextgame

Pirate Retrospective

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• Pirate

• Saber

• Corsair

• Treasure

• Map

• Eye patch

• TreasureIsland

• To board

• Jolly Roger

Preparation Navigation

Combat Loot

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Arming Supplies Ship

Enemy Personell Captain

Preparation Navigation

Combat Loot

System Thinking

Make them awareof the system theyare in!

Systems thinkingSystems thinkingSystems thinkingSystems thinking is the process of understanding how things, regarded as systems, influence one another within a whole.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_thinking)

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Causal Loop Diagrams (CLD)

• Velocity Beispiel

Current Reality Tree (CRT)

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The

ABIDEModel

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Fun

Purpose

System Thinking

What aboutyour

hypotheses?

Questions?

Contact data

Marc LöfflerEmail: marc.loeffler@spoonique.deWeb: http://www.scrumphony.comTwitter: @marcloeffler