Retrospectives For Distributed Teams

Dana Pylayeva

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October 16, 2014

About me

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@DanaPylayeva

NYC Scrum User Group I

Why Retrospectives?

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Retrospectives:Timeless Classic Books

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Retrospective Is About…

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Agile Retrospective Framework

Stage Data Insights Action Close

6Adapted from “Agile Retrospectives. Making Good Teams Great”~ Esther Derby, Diana Larsen”

Goal: Establish a safe container, ensure participation,

get everyone’s voice heard in the first 5 min.

Activity:

1. Ask participants to take turns in stating their currentfeelings in 1-2 words.

2. Review working agreements.

Set the stage

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Stage Data Insights Action CloseStage

Prime Directive

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Insights ActionClosingStageData Insights Action Close

Gather Data

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Data

Stage

Goal: Build a shared context.

Without it people are working from a narrow set of data – their own.

Activity:

1. Build a timeline with data

2. Feelings (Emotion seismograph or labels with emotions)

Stage DataInsights Action CloseStage Data InsightsActionClosing

Generate Insights

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Insights

Insights

Goal: Figure out what this information means

Activity:

1. Many options:

- Plus/Delta

- Stop/Start/Continue

- Appreciation/Puzzles/Risks/Wishes

2. Route Cause Analysis

- Fishbone diagram

- 5 Whys

Stage DataInsights Action CloseStage Data InsightsActionClosing

Decide What To DoGoal: Select highest priority improvement item to act

on during the next sprint.

Action:

- Dot Voting

- Design the experiment

- Select the next steps

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Action

Stage Data InsightsActionClosing StageDataInsights Action Closing

Close The RetrospectiveGoal: Improve the retrospective, appreciation

Activity:

1. Quick retro on retrospective

- Plus/Delta or

- Helped/Hindered/Hypothesis

2. Thank you!

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Close

An Alternative – Six Thinking Hats

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CommonAnti-Patterns

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#1 - A whining session

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#2 - A witch hunt

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She broke

the build!

Did not

finish her

story!

#3 - Skipping retrospectives

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ScrumMaster

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ScrumTeam

#4 - Boredom

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#5- Do NOTHING Retrospective

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#6- Make The Whole World a Better Place

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Retrospectives With Distributed Teams

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Simulating Face To Face Communication

Simulating In-Room Experience With GoogleDocs

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…with GroupZap

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Getting Creative..

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In the room: On a WebEx( in GoogleDocs):

Combined:

Frogs that annoyed us last Sprint

Remember the future: The amazing way we worked together in next Sprint

On-line Resources

0www.innovationgames.com

0 http://retrospectivewiki.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

0 http://www.strongandagile.co.uk/index.php/facilitating-distributed-team-retrospectives/

0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Thinking_Hats

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Tools For Distributed Retrospectives

0GoogleDoc Template from Ilio Krumins-Beens & Terrence McGovernhttps://docs.google.com/drawings/d/17cyx7QZJLpMIoVHsdlAldXfgU-cPdIg9v_XlVhhtkZU/edit

0 http://padlet.com/

0www.seenowdo.com

0 trello.com

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Many Options..

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Putting It All Together:Let’s Conduct An Experiment!

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Retrospective of NYC Scrum User Group.

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