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Retrospect it!A simple recipe for building fun Agile retrospectives
by Peti Morgan
A story about a moth
From the Agile manifesto:
At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behaviour accordingly.
“I like them because stuff changes afterwards”
Barbara Gruber
Retrospective fatigueHave you noticed…
people are unfocusedthere is a lack of buy infollow through is badparticipation is poorthe insights gained are not useful
Make it interestingFollow a simple recipe, flavour as needed
OPEN IT ‘STORM IT FILTER IT ANALYSE IT (TO) DO IT CLOSE IT
Open itGoal: Get people involved and engaged in the first 5 minutes. Trigger memories about the sprint/cycle just been.
Ways to do it:
fist of five ESVP
weather report
quick question
temp reading
constellation three words
‘storm itGoal: Gather data from team members, so that we can choose good topics to talk about.
Ways to do it:
stop start change
mad sad glad
the 4 Ls peaks & valleys
draw a timeline hot air balloon speed boat
Filter itGoal: Identify the topics that the team would like to talk about.
Ways to do it:
dot vote
plus minus voting
round of applause
vote with your feet
circles in the soup
Analyse itGoal: Get to the root cause of the issue.
Ways to do it:
5 whys lean coffee
speed dating
written brainstorming
what would awesome look like? (And why aren’t we
there yet
(To) do itGoal: write up 2 or 3 SMART, owned actions to be resolved in the next sprint/cycle.
Ways to do it: by the team or verbatim.
Close itGoal: Sum up your actions, check for opportunities to improve your next retrospective.
Ways to do it: however you opened the retrospective, close it that way too.
There, you’ve done it!How can a retrospective be boring with this recipe?
OPEN IT ‘STORM IT FILTER IT ANALYSE IT (TO) DO IT CLOSE IT
Tips for facilitatorsBe neutral
Keep to time
Focus on what you can change
One or two things at once
Use sharpies
Post actions close to your board, check regularly
‘Park it’
Stay in the background
Further resourcesFun retrospectives: http://www.funretrospectives.com/Tasty Cupcakes: http://tastycupcakes.org/?s=retrospectives&x=0&y=0Retromat: http://plans-for-retrospectives.com/Retrospective Wiki: http://retrospectivewiki.org/index.php?title=Retrospective_Plans
Recommended books/purchases
Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Esther Derby: http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Retrospectives-Making-Teams-Great/dp/0977616649 Retromat in print format: http://plans-for-retrospectives.com/print/index.html Retrospective Coaching Cards: http://www.amazon.com/Retrospective-Coaching-Cards-Geoff-Watts/dp/0957587473/ Agile Kaizen: Managing Continuous Improvement Far Beyond Retrospectives by by Angel Medinilla: http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Kaizen-Continuous-Improvement-Retrospectives/dp/364254990X/
Retrospect it! by Peti Morgan is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Based on a work at https://medium.com/agile-software-development/retrospect-it-a-simple-recipe-for-building-fun-agile-retrospectives-144f4097a1d2.