Inject

1. Spice Up Your
Retrospective
(Marc Löffler, @scrumphony)

2. What do you expect
to take home from
this session?

3. The Retro Challenges

4. Motivate
people and
keep them
engaged

5. Work on
identified
tasks

6. What prevents them?
• Repetition
Boring Retros
• Same problems
No effect
• No responsibility
• Tasks are not visible
• Tasks are too big

7. Two root causes
• Missing Relativeness
• Missing Purpose

8. Two root causes
• Missing Relativeness
• Missing Purpose

10. „The object toward which one
strives or for which something
exists; an aim or a goal”

11. Autonomy
Mastery
Purpose

12. You can‘t fake purpose!

13. Why is it missing?

14. Missing vision and/or
mission

15. Vision is blurred…

16. Inject purpose into
retrospectives

17. But how?

18. Add hypotheses to your
retrospectives

19. Set the
Stage
Gather
Data
Traditional
Generate
retrospective
Insight
flow
Decide
What To Do
Closing (Esther Derby & Diana Larsen)

20. Alternative
retrospective
flow

22. The power of metaphors

23. Soccer Retrospective

24. What soccer
terms come
into your
mind?

25. • Imagine your last
sprint was a soccer
match of 90 minutes
• Create a live ticker
of this match
• Only use soccer
terms
• Check your
hypotheses from
last time

26. Next steps…
• Game Analysis
• Prepare for the
next match
including to define
testable(!)
new testable(!)
hypotheses

27. The Recipe

28. What‘s
your
recipe for
a perfect
sprint?

29. Why do you
think this
recipe will
create the
perfect
sprint?
(Hypotheses)

30. What steps
or ingredients
were missing
in your last
sprint?

31. Two metaphor tips…
• Create a list of
metaphor terms
before you start
• Don‘t leave your
metaphor!

32. Possible benefits of using metaphors
• Think outside of
the box
• New, creative ideas
Fun!

33. Some other ideas...

34. Retrospective Cookies
retrospectivecookies.com

36. Change the
location

37. Summary
• Any retrospective without a
purpose is a dead
retrospective.
• Add hypotheses to your
retrospectives.
• Play around with metaphors
for new ideas.

38. What about your
hypotheses?

39. Thanks for your
attention

40. Contact
Marc Löffler
Email: marc.loeffler@spoonique.de
Web: http://blog.scrumphony.com
Twitter: @scrumphony

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