1. The document outlines the structure and components of an effective retrospective meeting, including setting the stage, gathering data, generating insights, deciding what to do, and closing the retrospective. 2. It recommends allocating time equally among the components, with around 30-50% of time spent gathering data, 20-30% generating insights, and 15-20% deciding what to do. 3. Various activities are suggested for each component, such as check-ins for setting the stage, timelines for gathering data, and SMART goals for deciding actions.

1. Agile
Retrospectives
Making Good Teams Great
Toni Tassani - 23 January 2013

2. Structure of a Retrospective
1. Set the stage
2. Gather data
3. Generate insights
4. Decide what to do
5. Close the retrospective

3. Structure of a Retrospective
1. Set the stage
Ask everyone in the room to speak
Team values and working agreements
2. Gather data
Facts and feelings
3. Generate insights
Step back, see the big picture and delve into root causes
4. Decide what to do
List of Potential Experiments (One or Two per iteration)
Better right before the planning (after a break)
5. Close the retrospective
Decisively. Record what has been learned + Retro on the retro

4. Preparation
● Set a (useful) goal for the retrospective
● "Continuous process improvement" may
become stale
● Determining length:
○ 1 hour for 1 week.
○ 1/2 day for 30 days
● Release and Project Retrospectives

5. Example Planning
Set the stage 5% 6 minutes
Gather data 30-50% 40 minutes
Generate insights 20-30% 25 minutes
Decide what to do 15-20% 20 minutes
Close the retrospective 10% 12 minutes
Shuffle time 10-15% 17 minutes
Total 100% 120 minutes
Ten minutes break every 90 minutes

6. Activities to Set the Stage
● Check-In: short phrase. Answer to question.
● Focus On / Focus Off
● ESVP (Explorer, Shopper, Vacationer or
Prisioner)
● Working Agreements

7. Activities to Gather Data
● Timeline
● Triple Nickels
● Color Code Dots
● Mad Sad Glad
● Locate Strengths
● Satisfaction Histogram
● Team Radar
● Like to Like

8. Activities to Generate Insights
● Brainstorming / Filtering
● Force Field Analysis
● Five Whys
● Fishbone
● Patterns and Shifts
● Prioritize with dots
● Report Out with Synthesis
● Identify Themes
● Learning Matrix

9. Activities to Decide What to Do
● Retrospective Planning Game
● SMART Goals
● Circle of Questions
● Short Subjects

10. Activities to Close the Retrospective
● +/- Delta
● Appreciations
● Temperature Reading
● Helped, Hindered, Hypothesis
● Return On Time Invested (ROTI)

11. Thank you