Retrospectives
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What are you doing to continually improve your team? Maybe it is time to start bringing life into those retrospectives or lessons learned.
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Retrospectives
- 1. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO Retrospectives Inspect & Adapt the Process
- 2. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO AGENDA What is a Retro? The Big Picture: Agile Fluency Myth Busters Focused Conversations Cardinal Sins Activities
- 3. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO WHO WHAT WHY WHEN? 1. The Team 2. Inspect the Process 3. Improve the Process and Team 4. At the End of EVERY Sprint
- 4. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO MARTIN FOWLER’S AGILE FLUENCY Focus on Value See progress from business perspective. Redirect teams when needed. Deliver Value Release on cadence. Capture value frequently. Reveal obstructions early. Optimize Value Make excellent product decisions. Eliminate handoffs. Speed decision making. Optimize for Systems Cross-pollinate perspectives. Stimulate innovation. Optimize value stream. Team Culture Shift Team Skills Shift Org Structure ShiftOrg Culture Shift
- 5. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO Myth Busters Excerpts from Mike Cohn’s Blog Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained. -Vladimir Nabokov
- 6. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO MYTH 1 The Team Is Too Good for Retrospectives • Your team is not too good that it cannot get better. • It is highly unlikely that your team is so good there are no further improvements either to be identified or worth making.
- 7. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO MYTH 2 Retrospectives Are Too Boring • Mix things up by asking a ScrumMaster from another team to facilitate your retrospective. • Try a totally different format for the meeting.
- 8. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO MYTH 3 The Team Is Too Busy for Retrospectives • A team that says it is too busy to dedicate time to getting better is taking a very shortsighted view of the future. • Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey (The Woodcutter)
- 9. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO MYTH 4 The Team Doesn't Like Retrospectives • It may just be too bad because everyone on the team is expected to be a professional. • The difference between an armature and a professional is…
- 10. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO Focused Conversations Mini Lesson Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self. -Karen Salmansohn
- 11. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO The Art of Focused Conversation: 100 Ways to Access Group Wisdom in the Workplace (2002). Ed. R. Brian Stanfield for The Canadian Institute for Cultural Affairs. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers. 1.Objective Questions about facts and external reality uncolored by feelings or opinions. 2. Reflective Questions to call forth immediate person reaction to the data. 3. Interpretive Questions that draw out meanings, values, significance, and implications. 4. Decisional Questions that elicit resolution, bring the conversation to a close, and enable the group to make a resolve about the future.
- 12. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO OBJECTIVE • What was delivered this iteration? • What deadlines or stories were missed? • Was the sprint goal achieved? • What bugs were discovered?
- 13. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO The Art of Focused Conversation: 100 Ways to Access Group Wisdom in the Workplace (2002). Ed. R. Brian Stanfield for The Canadian Institute for Cultural Affairs. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers. 1.Objective Questions about facts and external reality uncolored by feelings or opinions. 2. Reflective Questions to call forth immediate person reaction to the data. 3. Interpretive Questions that draw out meanings, values, significance, and implications. 4. Decisional Questions that elicit resolution, bring the conversation to a close, and enable the group to make a resolve about the future.
- 14. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO REFLECTIVE • How do you feel about the work completed? • What was the most difficult story to work on? • When were you feeling pressure or frustration? • When did you feel like teamwork was lacking?
- 15. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO The Art of Focused Conversation: 100 Ways to Access Group Wisdom in the Workplace (2002). Ed. R. Brian Stanfield for The Canadian Institute for Cultural Affairs. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers. 1.Objective Questions about facts and external reality uncolored by feelings or opinions. 2. Reflective Questions to call forth immediate person reaction to the data. 3. Interpretive Questions that draw out meanings, values, significance, and implications. 4. Decisional Questions that elicit resolution, bring the conversation to a close, and enable the group to make a resolve about the future.
- 16. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO INTERPRETIVE • What do you think are the underlying issues behind these difficulties? • How have you seen other teams deal with these kinds of issues successfully? • What practical steps could we take to deal with this?
- 17. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO The Art of Focused Conversation: 100 Ways to Access Group Wisdom in the Workplace (2002). Ed. R. Brian Stanfield for The Canadian Institute for Cultural Affairs. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers. 1.Objective Questions about facts and external reality uncolored by feelings or opinions. 2. Reflective Questions to call forth immediate person reaction to the data. 3. Interpretive Questions that draw out meanings, values, significance, and implications. 4. Decisional Questions that elicit resolution, bring the conversation to a close, and enable the group to make a resolve about the future.
- 18. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO DECISIONAL • What will the team try during the upcoming sprint to ensure this doesn’t happen again? • What is the first step to solving this problem? • What metric will we use to measure the effectiveness of this change?
- 19. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO 1. Skipping retrospectives 2. Not enough time 3. Selective memory 4. Shiny Happy People Retro 5. Haters Gonna Hate 6. No action items 7. No action with action items CARDINAL SINS OF RETROS
- 20. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO THE 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, Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Review
- 21. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO Activity Bank Keeping it Real (and Interesting)
- 22. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO TEAM RADAR What 1. Print individual radars. 2. Draw large team radar. 3. Add 5-8 topics. 4. Individually rate topics. 5. Connect dots. 6. Transfer to large radar 7. Discuss themes. Why • Everyone has equal opportunity. • Works for both “soft” and “hard” issues. • Quantifies the data. • Identify discourse.
- 23. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO BRAIN WRITING What 1. One paper with ideas at the top. 2. Idea added in 1st section. 3. Paper passed to next person who builds on idea. 4. Repeat steps 2 & 3. Example: Given what you have heard and seen, what should you do? Why • Find solutions. • List future actions. • Peer review solutions.
- 24. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO SAILBOAT What 1. The team records things that they felt helped the Sprint move forward or slowed it down. 2. select a team member to group the sticky notes into similar categories. 3. have the team vote on what they feel are the critical groups to focus on. Why • Identify issues. • Distil issues to themes. • Prepare for root cause analysis.
- 25. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO
- 26. OFFICE OF DISTANCE AND ELEARNING PgMO FEEDBACK PLEASE go.osu.edu/agile-eval
Editor's Notes
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- https://medium.com/@sskorc/7-cardinal-sins-of-retrospectives-419364a258c3
- The purpose of the Prime Directive is to assure that a retrospective has the right culture to make it a positive and result oriented event. It makes a retrospective become a effective team gathering to learn and find solutions to improve the way of working.