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Ben Linders ConsultingTopconf Linz March 1, 2017 Ben Linders
Spicing up Agile Retrospectives
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Key Takeaways
• “Why” and “what” of Retrospectives• Retrospective Exercises and Examples• Facilitating Retrospectives
With agile retrospectives teams drive their own actions! Ben Linders
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Agile, Lean, Quality & Continuous Improvement
Trainer / Coach / Adviser / Author / SpeakerRecognized Expert on Agile RetrospectivesCMMI & People-CMM Assessor
Freelance Editor for InfoQ.com
Ben Linders
Co-Author Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives English Dutch French Japanese Spanish Italian Chinese Russian Polish German Greek Turkish Vietnamese Czech
Author: What Drives Quality & Continuous Improvement
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State of PracticeAgile Retrospectives
Doing them?
Like doing them?
Valuable?
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Agile RetrospectivesAgile practice for teams to reflect on their way of workingand to continuously become better in what they do.
Focus upon
• Teamworking
• Self organizing
What is an Agile Retrospectives
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Purpose of Retrospectives
• With team’s authority comes responsibility for WoW
• No “first time right”
• Ok to fail, if you learn from it
• Continuous improvement
Sustainable Improvement through Agile Retrospectives
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Retrospectives with Kanban• Fixed cycle / cadence
Every week / 2 weeks, etc• When needed
Impediment raised / Stand upstop-the-lineIssue board
Start from where you are Kaizen, small continuous steps
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Prime Directive“Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly
believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand.”
Norm Kerth http://www.retrospectives.com/
Create an Open Culturewhere team member Speak Upwith Respect for each otherto Learn and Improve
Prime Directive in 9 Languages Soft Skills Matter
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Team DevelopmentExcellent teams:• are self organized & take responsibility,• value collaboration & interaction,• and want learn and improve themselves.
Agile Retrospectives: empower teams help teams to take action enable sustainable improvement
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Example: Failed sprint
The Sprint that failed One-Word Exercise:
• Deal with Feelings • Trust & Respect• Empowerment
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Example: Not able to improve
Team that wasn’t a team yet 5-Times Why exercise
• Getting to know each other• Collaborate• Skills to Improve
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Retrospective Exercises• Asking questions• One-word retrospective• Root Cause Analysis• Asking Why?• Strenghts (Solution Focused)• Perfection game• Action priorities• Retrospective of Retrospectives• Teams with multiple customers
• Remote Teams• Futurespectives• Strengths/Core Qualities• Self-assessment Game• Agile journey• Safety check• Faces Jack Sparrow
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Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises
• Teams differ• Needs vary• More value• Keep it fresh
You can plan a retrospective meeting, and think about the exercise you want to use, but be open to change it on the spot whenever needed.
Toolbox of Retrospective Techniques
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Capable Retrospective FacilitatorsFacilitated by capable professionals:• Qualified facilitators• Train: Purpose, techniques, skills • Mentoring & coaching • Communities of Practice
Agile Improvement
Effective and Efficient Retrospectives: More Impact Less time
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Do and Evaluate Retrospectives
Start with retrospectives in your first iteration Simple technique: asking questions or boat exercise
Evaluate the Retrospective:• Is this useful? • Helps to get a shared understanding?• Do the actions make sense? • Does meeting as a team to reflect feel good?
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Vital Few Actions• Small Actions • Frequent Change• Focus on Value• Stop Starting,
Start Stopping• Kanban
Short Cycled Improvement Vital Few Actions
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Designing your Retrospective
amazon.com/dp/B00SWJO1DI benlinders.com/exercises/
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Spicing Up your RetrospectiveValuable Agile Retrospectives:• Well Facilitated• Effective Exercises• Vital Few Actions
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Questions?Questions?
Ben LindersIndependent Consultant Agile, Lean,Quality & Continuous Improvement
[email protected]@BenLinders.com @BenLinders www.linkedin.com/in/benlinderswww.linkedin.com/in/benlinders www.facebook.com/BenLindersAdvieswww.facebook.com/BenLindersAdvies www.benlinders.comwww.benlinders.com
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Spicing up RetrospectivesFull Day WorkshopsWhy and HowBusiness BenefitsFacilitation SkillsExercises
Workshop Agile RetrospectivesSpice up your Agile Retrospectives
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Getting More out of Agile & Lean Practices for teams and stakeholders to develop the right products,
deliver faster, increase quality, and create happy high performing teams.
Full Day Workshops:Deploying Agile practices effectively Improve CollaborationTips & Trick for Agile & Lean Improve Continuously
Increase your organization's agility!
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Retrospectives BookGetting Value out of Agile RetrospectivesBy Luis Gonçalves & Ben Linders
Download from InfoQ or LeanpubBuy on Amazon or Lulu
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Continuous Improvement
Become aware of importance of continuous improvement,
Explore how it’s engrained in agile software development
Suggestions that you can use in your daily work to improve continuously
Increase your organization's agility!
Leanpub.com/continuousimprovement
“Continuous Improvement is the act of continuously doing whatever helps to become better and thus more valuable”
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Retrospectives Book BundleSix successful retrospectives books• Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives• Fun Retrospectives• Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your Retrospectives• The Retrospective Handbook• Retrospectives for Organizational Change• The Retrospectives Kickstarter
These books will make your agile retrospectives rock!Teams will love to do them :-).
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Assessing your AgilityOver 40 tools:• Self-Assessment checklists• Readyness checks• Maturity assessments• Agile health checks• Measurements• And much more! Agile Self-Assessments
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Why Retrospectives?To help teams to solve problems and improve themselves!
• Becoming Agile and Lean• Make existing processes more Agile• Increase Value of Agile• Less resistance to Change