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Retrospectives A focus on getting better

Retrospectives A focus on getting better. Why bother? What is the point?.

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Retrospectives A focus on getting better

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  1. RetrospectivesA focus on getting better

  2. Why bother?What is the point?

  3. Retrospective Prime DirectiveRegardless 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

  4. What is the flow?

  5. Retrospective Flow Image from: http://www.ayeconference.com/appreciativeretrospective/ Originally from Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great! by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen

  6. Why? • Why do we • Set the Stage • Gather data • Generating insights • Deciding what to do • Closing the retrospective

  7. How? Activities and ideas • Setting the Stage • Check in – 1-3 words / sentences • ESVP • Satisfaction histogram • Temperature reading • Metaphors • Fist of Five • What’s in it for me?

  8. How? Activities and ideas • Gathering Data • Time line • Satisfaction histogram • + / delta – WWW / TALA • Mad Sad Glad • Liked Lacked Learnt Longed for • Locate Strengths

  9. How? Activities and ideas • Gathering Data • Team Radar • Triple Nickels • Sailboat • Premortum • Draw the problem

  10. How? Activities and ideas • Generate Insights • Brainstorming • Filtering • Dot voting • Identify themes • Debriefing • 5 Whys • Circle of questions • A3 Thinking

  11. How? Activities and ideas • Decide What to Do • Ordering • Thumb vote • Impact / Effort matrix • SMART Goals • Circle of questions • Triple Nickels

  12. How? Activities and ideas • Closing • 1 good thing & 1 improvement • Appreciations • Temperature reading • ROTI • Satisfaction histogram

  13. What are the benefits of doing retrospectives?

  14. What are the weaknesses?

  15. What weaknesses do we have?

  16. What should we do to counter act these weaknesses?

  17. The Facilitator

  18. How Often?Who?

  19. Further Research • Agile Retrospectives – Making Good Teams Great – Esther Derby and Diana Larsen • Google video with them talking through all of this. • Their blogs, and countless others. • Cara’s Blog - http://facilitatingagility.com/

  20. Questions?Discussion?

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