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Find someone near you, introduce yourself
and talk about why we retrospect.
Lets take a 2 minutes!
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An opportunity for teams or organisations to get together and
reflect on:
• What is going well?
• What is not going so well?
The outcome is a set of actions that the team can action upon.
Either in their control or outside.
Benefits from running regular retrospectives include:
• Increase productivity
• Improved capability
• Better quality
• Greater communication
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There are different types of retrospectives you can run:
• Release
• Project
• Sprint
• Ad-hoc or event
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Typical format
• Ice breaker
• Review last actions
• Set the scene
• Generate Insight
• Organise Insight
• High level discussion
• Voting
• Detailed discussion
• Action Planning
• Consensus
• Close
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• Dot Voting – A classic!
• Finger of five
• 0 fingers (a fist): No way, terrible choice, I will not go along with it. A way to block consensus.
• 1 finger: I have serious reservations with this idea, but I vote to move forward, but I’d prefer to resolve the concerns before supporting it.
• 2 fingers: I have some concerns, but I’ll go along and try it.
• 3 fingers: I will support the idea.
• 4 fingers: I like this idea, sounds good.
• 5 fingers: Absolutely, best idea ever! I’ll champion it.
• Tribes
• Divide the dollar
• Planning poker voting
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• Allow plenty of time
• Prepare, prepare, prepare!
• Invite everyone in the team, including the PO
• Be creative in generating insights from the team. Consider using music or props
• Keep your retrospectives fresh. Try not to do the same one all the time!
• Different teams will respond better to different types, so experiment
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Website Links:
• Retro mat – Click here
• Fun Retrospectives – Click here
• Sky Coach – Click here
• My blog – Click here
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Dated Location Link
05 Apr 2017 London The Art of Retrospection
22 Nov 2017 London The Art of Retrospection
The Art of Retrospective 1 day workshop
Certified Lean Kanban Foundation 2 day workshop
Date Location Link
06 Apr - 07 Apr 2017 London Certified Lean Kanban Foundation
06 Jul - 07 Jul 2017 London Certified Lean Kanban Foundation
27 Jul - 28 Jul 2017 Bucharest Certified Lean Kanban Foundation
20 Nov - 21 Nov 2017 London Certified Lean Kanban Foundation
Private classes are available on request
Editor's Notes Who I am
What roles I play
Where I work
What my roots are
Some of the companies I work with
What drives me
(Five Minutes)
This sessions all about using metaphors to help run retrospectives – we are now going to talk about some of the other ones we have used.
We will have the retros on the wall and we talk through each of them