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Running a Retrospective
Team Facilitation
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Scrum Framework
Roles• Product
Owner• ScrumMaster• Team
Rituals• Daily Scrum• Sprint
Planning• Sprint Review• Sprint
Retrospective
Artifacts• Product
Backlog• Sprint
Backlog• Burndown
Chart
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Scrum Rituals
Sprint Planning
Daily Scrum
Meeting
Sprint Revie
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Sprint Retrospective(Inspect and
Adapt)Erin S Beierwaltes4/12/2011
Basic Questions
What worked well last Sprint that we should continue doing?
What didn’t work well last Sprint that we should stop doing?
What should we start doing?
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Retrospective Guidelines
After every sprint Whole team participation Time-boxed Formatted and Facilitated
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Time to Inspect and Adapt State the Goal (General or Specific) Gather Data Discuss Data Action Plan Retro the Retro Close
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ScrumMaster as Facilitator
“Your team is only as strong as its quietest member”
- Jean Tabaka, Rally
http://www.agileiq.org/
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Retrospective Goal
Commit to a set of achievable action items in the next
sprint that will improve the way we
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Retrospective Flow
Gather Data
Discuss and
Refine
ConfirmAction Items
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Gather Data (Sprint)
Silent Brainstorming (w/ post its) Time boxed (15-30min) 3-4 categories
Start, Stop, Continue, Shouts Strong, Weak, Improving
http://www.selfishprogramming.com/2009/12/08/agile-winter-school/
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Gather Data (Release) Timeline-ing Time boxed Silent Brainstorming Draw out a release timeline (with sprints) Gives the team members 3 colors to make
observations on Positive Negative Neutral
Draw the “happiness curve”
http://blog.jthawes.com/tag/graphical-facilitation/Erin S Beierwaltes4/12/2011
Discuss and Refine
Time boxed Walk through each comment in the
Data Gathering exercise Find common themes and categories Brainstorm actionable items for each categories
http://fabiopereira.me/blog/tag/thoughtworks/Erin S Beierwaltes4/12/2011
Confirm Action Items
Time boxed Voting Give everyone 5-10 dot stickers Ask them to spend their dots on their
favorite actionable items
http://www.innovationtools.com/Articles/ArticleDetails.asp?a=141
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Close
Review most popular action items from voting
Confirm team commitment on action items You may decide to only take the top 2-5
depending on your team size Remember to carry them over to
Sprint Planning as Inputs
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Retro the Retro (yes, I’m serious) Time boxed (fast) 0-4 scale
0 = The time spent in this retro was a loss of my time and I gained nothing (negative)
2 = I gained what I spent in time (neutral) 4 = The time I spent was more than worth what I
got in return (awesome) If anything comes back 2 or lower, invite
that person to comment. ScrumMaster should take the feedback and
try to refine the approach for next sprintErin S Beierwaltes4/12/2011
How is your Retrospective going? Do you have action items? Is everyone engaged and giving
ideas? How often does the team follow
through on the action items?
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