Agile Tour 2010 - Pune
Make your Retrospectives Fun and Effective
Archana Joshi & Vijay Chandra Katte
Wipro Consulting [email protected]@wipro.com
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Sounds Familiar ?
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Why Retrospectives?
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Retrospectives – Common problems
1. To Share or Not to Share
2. Switch on the listening mode
3. Distributed teams
4. The blame game goes on and on
5. All Talk – No Action
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Effectiveness ….
1. Time-boxed Retrospectives
2. Structured Agenda
3. Prioritize the Retrospective Items
4. Monitor & Measure Retrospective Index
5. Pigs and Chickens in Retrospectives too
6. For distributed teams – have facilitator at each location
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Hidden to Reveal
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Ishikawa Diagrams
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Picking a Name
Archana
VijayJeffson
Jason
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Round Robin
Team A
Location A
Team B
Location B
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Mad, Sad, Glad
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