Love your team_with_retrospectives
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Love your team!
Or, Better Living Through RetrospectivesVesna Kovach @Vesna_V_K
https://joind.in/talk/9ca30
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1.Got Problems?
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Decide what to do.
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Today’s agendaLove Your Team agenda
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2.Anatomy of a Retrospective
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Retrospective: Definition“Agile ritual”
Team activity
Highly structured
Specific segments
Timeboxed
Regular intervals
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Retrospective: PurposeLook at the past
A specific period or phase of work
Recent
Identify issues
Decide what to do
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Issue: Create focus for week aheadMonday morning kickoff meeting
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Issue: Feature suggestions get Buried Add a “fly-by” segment to weekly story
grooming for new icebox items.
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Issue: Devs and Stakeholders Not in syncEmail list of features going live
Devs attend departmental meetings
Demo new features
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Issue: Making time to work on big pictureMonthly strategy lunch
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Issue: Team interaction NarrowMonthly game lunch
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Retrospective: structure1.Set the stage
2.Gather data
3.Generate insights
4.Decide what to do
5.Close the Retrospective
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Act 1: set the stageIntroduce goal
Review agenda
Group activity
General
Check in
Favorite superhero
Specific
Rate a particular topic 1-5
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Act 2: Gather DataWhat happened?
Timeline
How do we feel
about ____?
Mad/Sad/Glad
Team Radar
What went right?
Locate Strengths
What’s on your mind?
Triple Nickels
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Act 3: Generate insightsGlean new perspectives from the facts
Find meaning
Patterns and shifts
Identify themes
Force field analysis
Generate suggestions
Brainstorm
Find team values
Prioritize with dots
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Act 3: Generate insightsMomentum highest here.
Do not attempt to solve the problems!
You MUST move your team on to...
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Act 4: Decide what to doConcrete plans!
SMART goal
Specific
Measureable
Attainable
Relevant
Timeboxed
Gain consensus
Circle of Questions
Create detailed action plans
Retrospective Planning Game
Choose direction
Prioritize With Dots
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Act 5: CloseRetrospect on this
Retro
Helped/Hindered/Hypothesis
+/Δ
Return on Time Invested
Temperature Reading
Appreciations
Puzzles
New info
Recommendations
Hopes & wishes
Warm Fuzzies
Appreciations
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3.HOld a Great Retrospective
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Who?Every team member (eventually)
Shared ownership
Increased skills
More styles
Better participation
Conscious onboarding
When they feel ready
Provide resources
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When?Classic answer:
At end of iteration
What works for my team:
Every other week
Friday end of day
Your answer:
Often enough
At a good point in your flow
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How Long?YMMV
We do
1 hour
90 minutes
Some places do
All day
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Some BasicsTeam agreements
Agenda preparation (facilitator)
Reading agenda ahead of time (group)
Attendance
Ending on time
Ways to follow through
Example Working Agreement
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ContentCraft agenda
Choose activities
Figure out time slots for each
Agenda template
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Content: What to do?
Resources
for the activities
Agile Retrospectives:
Making Good Teams Great
By Esther Derby and Diana Larsen
Retrospective Wiki
Fun Retrospectives
Retromat
Retrospective Toolbox
Tip:Start here!
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Tips for contentRead over your previous Retros
What exercises did you use?
What topics did you cover?
What was decided?
Did you follow through?
Tailor to the moment
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Tools: FacilitatorDry-erase board
(Or easel and flip pad)
To clean board
Towel
Water! (not solution!)
Eraser
Markers that work
Plenty of colors
Yellow, orange -- highlighting
Watch or timer
Basket or tub for supplies.
Drinking water
Cough drops
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Prep Fully: The boardSet up the board
Clean it
Draw charts to fill in
Anticipate space you’ll need
Check supplies
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Tools: TeamFor the team
Nice pens that work
Legal pads
Index cards
Sticky notes
Plenty of the right colors
Colored magnets
For voting on magnetic board
Wall clock
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Prep Fully: for the teamKnow the activities
Anticipate best
writing supplies
Set up for your
team
Decide on materials
Provide them
Arrange seating
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FacilitateDon’t expect to participate
At least, not in every exercise
At least, not at first
Put your energy into helping the team have a great meeting
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FacilitateProvide clear
instructions
Avoid “Whatever you want it to mean”
type instructions
Free up energy for exploring the
issues
Get more consistent results
Get team members in sync
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FacilitateProvide clear instructions
Hold people to the rules of the game
Better gameplay
Helps focus
Helps stay on task
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FacilitateTricky balancing act:
Make sure everyone is heard
Contribution must land
Keep the group on task
Remember: We’re here to identify issues
Not necessarily to resolve them
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FacilitateMake sure to leave enough time for...
The hardest act to get to…
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Decide what to do.
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FacilitateLeave a few minutes for the closing act.
Let people go home on time.
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4.Capture the Results
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Capture the ResultsTake picture(s) of the board
Just in case
Make notes of points made
Write up all suggestions, puzzles,
appreciations
Write up what was decided
Summarize insights
Publish results to team
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Get StartedGo over the plans you made together
Pin down the details
Who will do what
Put any meetings on the calendar
Write up any stories
Reiterate any timeboxes
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5.Temperature Reading
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Temperature readingAppreciations
New info
Puzzles
Hopes and wishes
Recommendations
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Further ReadingLeanpub’s Agile Retrospective Bundle of six
e-books
Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives
Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team
Reviews
Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your
Retrospectives