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
19Photo by Sali Sasaki https://www.flickr.com/photos/salisasaki/6920798999/
#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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