This talk explains the “what” and “why” of retrospectives, as well as the business value and benefits that they can bring. Examples will be given of exercises that you can use to facilitate retrospectives, supported with advice for introducing and improving them. These are based on the successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives.
The workshop lets you explore a number of complexity oriented management methods around the topic of aligned autonomy, such as the action huddle, strategic storyline, complexity oriented delegation. We explain the purpose and the function of each method, and try them out in groups.
Why What and How of Agile Retrospectives - Agile Tour Lille 2015 - Ben LindersBen Linders
Becoming agile is a learning process which requires that you reflect regularly and adopt your way of working. Valuable Agile Retrospectives provide the solution for a successful agile adoption at all levels in the organization. They help you to apply agile practices effectively.
Spicing up Agile Retrospectives - Agile Tour London 2015 - Ben LindersBen Linders
The agile manifesto proposes that a “team reflects on how to become more effective”. Agile retrospectives can be used to inspect and adapt the way of working. Retrospectives help teams to deploy agile practices in an effective way and to continuously learn and improve themselves. Ben Linders, co-author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives, will talk about the why and how of agile retrospectives, with much practical tips, stories, and examples. Ben will also give a workshop on Valuable Agile Retrospectives on October 22.
Teams what is in it for me - GrowIT 2018 - Ben LindersBen Linders
Agile talks a lot about self-organized teams, where developers and testers work together to deliver software. But what can you do to make teams succeed?
Ben Linders will explore why you want to work in a team, the benefits that teams bring, and how to (not) manage teams.
What is an agile team (and what not)
Why would you as a developer want to work in a team, what’s in it for me
Which benefits do teams have for organizations, stakeholders, customers, etc
How to manage teams, the do’s and don’ts
How developers, managers, and business people, can effectively communicate and collaborate
Mini workshop Retrospecting your Retrospectives - Agile in the City Bristol 2...Ben Linders
In this mini-workshop, you will experience how to use retrospective exercises to debug your retrospective meetings. People will work in teams to reflect how their retrospectives are going and will learn what they can do to make them valuable again.
It’s a highly interactive session, learning by doing. I’ll bring in my experience from 18 years of doing agile retrospectives, and will set a culture where people will share their ideas and learn.
How to Become a Better Scrum Master - Agile Tour Beirut 2016 - Ben LindersBen Linders
During this interactive presentation you will explore the Scrum master role and provide examples of how to do it in an effective way. Humor combined with valuable insights and ideas.
The workshop lets you explore a number of complexity oriented management methods around the topic of aligned autonomy, such as the action huddle, strategic storyline, complexity oriented delegation. We explain the purpose and the function of each method, and try them out in groups.
Why What and How of Agile Retrospectives - Agile Tour Lille 2015 - Ben LindersBen Linders
Becoming agile is a learning process which requires that you reflect regularly and adopt your way of working. Valuable Agile Retrospectives provide the solution for a successful agile adoption at all levels in the organization. They help you to apply agile practices effectively.
Spicing up Agile Retrospectives - Agile Tour London 2015 - Ben LindersBen Linders
The agile manifesto proposes that a “team reflects on how to become more effective”. Agile retrospectives can be used to inspect and adapt the way of working. Retrospectives help teams to deploy agile practices in an effective way and to continuously learn and improve themselves. Ben Linders, co-author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives, will talk about the why and how of agile retrospectives, with much practical tips, stories, and examples. Ben will also give a workshop on Valuable Agile Retrospectives on October 22.
Teams what is in it for me - GrowIT 2018 - Ben LindersBen Linders
Agile talks a lot about self-organized teams, where developers and testers work together to deliver software. But what can you do to make teams succeed?
Ben Linders will explore why you want to work in a team, the benefits that teams bring, and how to (not) manage teams.
What is an agile team (and what not)
Why would you as a developer want to work in a team, what’s in it for me
Which benefits do teams have for organizations, stakeholders, customers, etc
How to manage teams, the do’s and don’ts
How developers, managers, and business people, can effectively communicate and collaborate
Mini workshop Retrospecting your Retrospectives - Agile in the City Bristol 2...Ben Linders
In this mini-workshop, you will experience how to use retrospective exercises to debug your retrospective meetings. People will work in teams to reflect how their retrospectives are going and will learn what they can do to make them valuable again.
It’s a highly interactive session, learning by doing. I’ll bring in my experience from 18 years of doing agile retrospectives, and will set a culture where people will share their ideas and learn.
How to Become a Better Scrum Master - Agile Tour Beirut 2016 - Ben LindersBen Linders
During this interactive presentation you will explore the Scrum master role and provide examples of how to do it in an effective way. Humor combined with valuable insights and ideas.
Design Thinking 101 - A Quick Explanation to Ease Your Confusion!Alex Denniston
You've probably heard about "Design Thinking" as the new hot thing used by all the most innovative companies and organizations.
But what is it?
In short, it's simply an approach to solving challenging problems that are too unique or too complex to use existing solutions.
Learn more about what it is, how to do it, and what it looks like in real life!
Check out my website to learn more about how I help companies apply these techniques to their business challenges!
www.alexdenniston.com
Spicing up Agile Retrospectives - Agile Practitioners 2016 - Ben LindersBen Linders
The agile manifesto proposes that a “team reflects on how to become more effective”. Agile retrospectives can be used to inspect and adapt the way of working. Retrospectives help teams to deploy agile practices in an effective way and to continuously learn and improve themselves. Ben Linders, co-author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives, will talk about the why and how of agile retrospectives, with much practical tips, stories, and examples. Ben also gives full-day workshops on Valuable Agile Retrospectives.
Given at UXDC
From Starchitects to Design Gurus, the lone designer-hero has been our model for creating impact. But it’s a complete lie. The complex software, smart devices and connected information environments we create require multidisciplinary teams. So we must spend a lot of time getting teamwork right, right?
Sadly, no.
Instead we rip job descriptions off the web, throw people together without preamble, simmer in passive-aggressive discontent until we eventually fire the person we’ve all been rolling our eyes at. Or worse, we avoid firing him until everyone good quits.
It’s time to give teams the same attention and craft we give our products. Christina will share the lessons from top companies in the Silicon Valley for you to take back to your teams. It doesn’t matter if you are a manager or a peer leader, these approaches will make your team thrive. Awesome products come from awesome teams, so it’s time to stop doing business as usual and design a team for impact.
Valuable Agile Retrospectives - Book Launch for SPIder - Ben LindersBen Linders
Presentation given at the SPIder Book Event to announce the Dutch edition Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives (translation from Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives).
With plenty of exercises for your personal retrospective toolbox, Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives will help you to become more proficient in doing retrospectives and to get more out of them.
Problem, what problem? Agile Impediment Board Game - ACE conference 2019 - B...Ben Linders
If your organization wants to become agile and lean, your teams need to be able to handle impediments quickly and effectively. In this game, you will practice how to recognize and analyze impediments, understand how they can hinder your team, and decide what can be done and who can take appropriate action by deploying agile and lean principles and good practices.
The impediment game played in this session teaches the five steps for handling impediments effectively.
Workshop Exercises to spice up your Agile Retrospective Agile Cambridge 201...Ben Linders
Valuable agile retrospectives provide the solution for a successful agile adoption at all levels in an organization. They help teams to reflect and learn how to apply agile practices effectively, and support managers with ideas to set conditions for their teams to grow and deliver more value.
In this mini-workshop you will experience how using different exercises can help you to spice up your agile retrospectives and get more value out of them. I will also explain the why and how of retrospectives, the business value and benefits that they can bring you, and provide tips for improving retrospectives in your teams.
In teams, you will practice exercises from the Retrospective Exercises Toolbox to experience how to effectively facilitate retrospectives.
Mini workshop retrospecting your retrospectives - Experience Agile 2020 - Be...Ben Linders
The mini-workshop Retrospecting your Retrospectives at eXperience Agile 2020 provides you with ideas to debug your agile retrospectives, find out why they aren’t working and learn how to spice them up and bring the energy back in the team.
Are your retrospective meetings not helping teams to improve? Same actions coming up every retro? People skip the retro, or find them boring? A lack of energy in the room? Chit-chatting instead of discussing real issues? No need for that, let’s retrospect your retrospectives!
In this mini-workshop, you will experience how to use retrospective exercises to debug your retrospective meetings. People will work in teams to reflect on how their retrospectives are going and will learn what they can do to make them valuable again.
It’s a highly interactive session, learning by doing. I’ll bring in my experience from 20 years of doing agile retrospectives, and will set a culture where people will share their ideas and learn.
Agile retrospectives should help teams to reflect at the end of each iteration to learn and decide what to improve and take action in the next iteration. Valuable Agile Retrospectives provide the solution for a successful agile adoption at all levels in the organization. They help teams to reflect and learn how to apply agile practices effectively, and support managers with ideas to set conditions for their teams to grow and deliver more value.
But sometimes retrospectives don’t live up their expectation. Problems that can happen are:
The same questions (what went well, what to improve) are being asked
Similar actions keep coming up in every retrospective
Nothing happens after the meeting, actions are not done
People are postponing or skipping the retrospective meeting
Team members complain that retrospectives are boring and a waste of time
There’s a lack of energy in the room during the meeting, people are not engaged
People don’t feel safe to speak up and share their view
Discussions in the retrospective are not about the real problems (elephant in the room)
The retrospective facilitator is leading people towards a pre-defined answer/solution
In this session, teams will be doing 5 different exercises. In a time slot of two hours, teams rotate to do 2-3 of them.
Intended audience: Scrum masters, agile coaches, tech leads, developers, testers, operations, and anyone who facilitates retrospectives.
This session includes ideas published in my book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives, practices from the Retrospective Exercises Toolbox, and agile coaching tools available in my webshop. It’s partly based on things that I teach in one of my workshops: Increasing Organizational Agility with Retrospectives.
Learning Objectives:
Learn to use exercises to reflect on your current practice of retrospectives
See how to create a safe and productive environment to run retrospectives
Practice effective skills for facilitating retrospectives and getting people engaged
How agile are you? - Agile New England 2021 - Ben LindersBen Linders
On April 1, 2021, (no joke) I did an Agile 101 for Agile New England where we played the Agile Self-assessment Game online.
The Agile Self-assessment Game: How Agile Are You? by Ben Linders
The Agile Self-assessment Game is an Agile ” compass & map” to find out where you are and inspire you with ideas and suggestions on where to go next on your agile journey. It’s a cooperative card game to discover how agile you are and what you can do to increase your agility to deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders.
In this session, Ben Linders explored how a game can enable people to pull in ideas for change and apply those in a way that best suits their collective needs. And we have played with the Agile self-assessment cards online.
Ben Linders is an Independent Consultant in Agile, Lean, Quality, and Continuous Improvement. As an adviser, trainer, and coach, he helps organizations with effectively deploying software development and management practices. He focuses on continuous improvement, collaboration and communication, and professional development, to deliver business value to customers. Ben is an active member of networks on Agile, Lean, and Quality, and a well-known speaker and author. Creator of many Agile Coaching Tools, for example, the Agile Self-assessment Game.
Scene setting: Recent trends in Process ImprovementBen Linders
Recently I was the host of the Unicom Conference “Recent Trends in Process Improvement” in Amsterdam. My scene setting talk explained to the audience why we need to uncover better ways to do process improvement. This blog post takes a deeper look at the needs of the business and customers for process improvement, and discusses some solutions to find better ways to do it.
Mini workshop Retrospecting your Retrospectives - Agilenext 2019 - Ben LindersBen Linders
Are your retrospective meetings not helping teams to improve? Same actions every time, people skip them, find them boring, lack of energy in the room?
This session provides ideas to recognize retrospective smells, debug your agile retrospectives, and find out when and why they aren’t working.
Let’s practice how to make retrospectives valuable again!
Lean Impediment Game - Lean Kanban France 2017 - Ben LindersBen Linders
The game consists of a deck of impediment cards, a list of agile and lean good practices, and an impediment board. This game has Lean/Kanban cards and supports Lean/Kanban thinking to solve problems.
Agile Retrospectives can be used to investigate quality issues or to agree upon actions that can improve the quality of the software that is delivered. They complement testing and provide solutions to learn and build quality in from the start. An agile retrospective is a practice for teams to reflect, learn, and to continuously become better in what they do. They focus on the process to help teams to improve products and deliver more value.
Personal Agility: From Personal Satisfaction to Professional ImpactPeter Stevens
Personal Agility is a simple, easy-to-use framework to help you figure out and do more of what really matters. Personal Agility connects what you do with who you are and who you want to be. Personal Agility is also a simple leadership framework to help you build alignment throughout your organization.
Do you have too much to do and not enough time to do it? This talk give answers, shares case studies, and shows how you can use this simple framework to do more that matters and less that doesn't!
As presented at Torino Agile Conference, February 3, 2018
Improving your quality and testing skills with gamification - Spring 2021 Onl...Ben Linders
For the first time, I’m doing a session at the Online Testing Conference. I’ll be playing games with the Agile Testing Coaching Cards and Agile Quality Coaching Cards to help people explore how things are going and to improve their way of working.
Improving Your Quality and Testing Skills with Gamification
So many challenges, so little time. As testers we need to sharpen the saw, but how? Gamification can be a way to look at how you’re doing and find out where to improve. It’s a great way to have everyone involved and get the best out of people.
In this presentation, Ben Linders will play games with the Agile Testing Coaching Cards and Agile Quality Coaching Cards to show how you can explore your current quality and testing practice and decide in your team on what to improve or experiment with.
Players can use the coaching cards to discuss quality and testing values, principles, and practices. In teams, people can use the cards to share their experiences and learnings.
Different game formats can be used to share experiences on testing and quality principles and practices and explore how they can be applied effectively.
Takeaways
Show how to use gamification to self-assess your current way of working.
Play games with the Agile Testing Coaching Cards and Agile Quality Coaching Cards.
Explore how to facilitate games to enhance quality and testing in agile teams.
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Online Testing Conference
OnlineTestConf was the first 100% online conference to provide all the advantages of attending professional QA related conferences: personal learning, networking etc. without the shortcomings of scheduling, expenses and travel. The conference has been running for the past 5 years on a semi-annual basis, long before COVID-19 forced all live events online.
Our next event will be our 10th OnlineTestConf! Conference attendees are from all parts of the world, we host well known speakers as well as young presenters, and discuss everything that relates to Testing and QA. Attendance is and will remain free of charge and we invite anyone who sees themselves involved in testing and the testing community to join.
Spicing up agile retrospectives - TopConf Linz 2017 - Ben LindersBen Linders
The agile manifesto proposes a “team reflects on how to become more effective”. Agile retrospectives can be used to inspect and adapt the way of working. Ben Linders, co-author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives, will talk about the why, what and how of agile retrospectives, with many practical tips, stories, and examples.The agile manifesto proposes that a “team reflects on how to become more effective”. Agile retrospectives can be used to inspect and adapt the way of working. Ben Linders, co-author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives, will talk about the why, what and how of agile retrospectives, with many practical tips, stories, and examples.
Retrospectives help teams to deploy agile practices in an effective way. The retrospective facilitator (often the Scrum master) should have a toolbox of retrospective exercises, and be able to pick the most effective ones. Retrospectives are a great way for teams to improve their way of working, to become more agile and lean. Getting actions out of a retrospective that are doable, and getting them done helps teams to learn and improve continuously.
VS Live 2021 Orlando - vst14 feedback skillsAngela Dugan
Feedback helps us to build stronger teams, supports more effective problem-solve and collaboration, and ultimately contributes to delivering better products. Without it, we can spend time focusing on the wrong things, solving the wrong problems, maybe not even knowing about problems in the first place!
So if feedback is critical to us growing and thriving, why aren't we all excitedly showering each other with feedback all the time, and BEGGING others to give it to us? In my experience, people are generally not enthusiastic or confident in their ability to give feedback. Feedback usually isn't happening because feedback feels risky, vulnerable, scary, even downright anxiety-inducing.
As a manager, leader, and coach of many teams over the last 20+ years, I can help you get a good foothold on where to start. Even better, I can tell you where the bodies are buried so you avoid some of the mistakes I've experienced over the years too.
In this session, we'll warm up with an overview of what feedback is and is not. We'll also review the qualities of high-quality feedback, as well as the other kinds of feedback so you know the difference. We'll finish off with a quick summary of some "tips and tricks" to getting comfortable with giving and receiving candid feedback that has worked really well for me. You'll be a feedback champion before you know it!
Keynote Need for Continuous Improvement - Agile Tour Kaunas 2016 - Ben LindersBen Linders
Agile isn’t a silver bullet, and it’s not a one size fits all approach. Continuous improvement is what makes it work, it’s at the heart of agile. Ben will show why continuous improvement matters in agile and what you can do to help your teams and organization to be more agile.
Agile Quality: maximize results with a small quality team, Ben Linders, Europ...Ben Linders
The Ericsson Operational Development & Quality team has managed to introduce a new Management System with a process baseline, rolled out measurements throughout the organization using a Balanced ScoreCard approach, and kept up a focused continuous improvement program. This presentation shows how (obstacles, KSF, results).
At all times, management has made clear that they need control of all aspects of the operation. With a collaborated approach of management and Operational Development (OD), the balanced scorecard was introduced. OD has streamlined target setting, monthly reporting, and quarterly management reviews. The monthly report has been enhanced from a figures only report to full analysis, action definition and forecasting per reported target, involving the line by means of feedback interviews.
A Management System was introduced, moulding and optimizing the existing organisation structure, authorities, and policies. With this management system, the set of processes was reduced, and process support was re-enforced.
A continuous improvement program was continued, with more focus on organizational targets. Existing tools like audits, root cause analysis, and improvement sessions were used to extract vital few actions together with line and project management; the resulting actions were tracked to completing by the OD team.
Key success factors have been the management commitment & active support, the drive of the OD & Quality team, and the build up of skills and knowledge that was needed to implement the changes. Cross-organizational co-operation was stimulated, and management was involved through the monthly reporting & feedback cycle. This presentation will give examples of this, and hints & tips on how to exploit these key success factors in your own organization.
The result is an efficient organization, capable of running projects and supporting activities in a largely quantitative managed way, meeting the required business results.
Scrum and Personal Agility are simple frameworks for getting good at getting the right things done. Scrum is team-based framework, Personal Agility is an individual or pair-oriented framework. How are they similar? And how does Personal Agility help you in contexts where Scrum is not appropriate?
Retrospectives helpen je om agile effectief toe te passen continu te verbeteren. Je pakt ermee problemen aan en zorgt voor een goede werksfeer in je teams. Scrum masters en Agile coaches halen meer uit teams met behulp van een toolbox met retrospective oefeningen.
In deze mini-workshop geeft Ben Linders, auteur van het succesvolle boek Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives, een introductie van de “waarom” en “wat” van retrospectives. Je oefent verschillende manieren om retrospectives te doen en krijgt tips en adviezen voor het introduceren en verbeteren van retrospectives.
Driving improvements with Agile Retrospectives - Project and Product Manageme...Ben Linders
Agile retrospectives have become a practice that is used by many teams to inspect and adapt their way of working. They provide insight into the activities performed and show how people are working together to deliver products
Did you know that you can also use agile retrospectives to drive improvements in projects and for products?
In his keynote, Ben Linders will explain what agile retrospectives are, how you can do them, and how they compare to project evaluations, post-mortems, and lessons-learned sessions. He will explore how you can join agile retrospectives as a project manager or product manager and the business benefits that agile retrospectives can bring.
Design Thinking 101 - A Quick Explanation to Ease Your Confusion!Alex Denniston
You've probably heard about "Design Thinking" as the new hot thing used by all the most innovative companies and organizations.
But what is it?
In short, it's simply an approach to solving challenging problems that are too unique or too complex to use existing solutions.
Learn more about what it is, how to do it, and what it looks like in real life!
Check out my website to learn more about how I help companies apply these techniques to their business challenges!
www.alexdenniston.com
Spicing up Agile Retrospectives - Agile Practitioners 2016 - Ben LindersBen Linders
The agile manifesto proposes that a “team reflects on how to become more effective”. Agile retrospectives can be used to inspect and adapt the way of working. Retrospectives help teams to deploy agile practices in an effective way and to continuously learn and improve themselves. Ben Linders, co-author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives, will talk about the why and how of agile retrospectives, with much practical tips, stories, and examples. Ben also gives full-day workshops on Valuable Agile Retrospectives.
Given at UXDC
From Starchitects to Design Gurus, the lone designer-hero has been our model for creating impact. But it’s a complete lie. The complex software, smart devices and connected information environments we create require multidisciplinary teams. So we must spend a lot of time getting teamwork right, right?
Sadly, no.
Instead we rip job descriptions off the web, throw people together without preamble, simmer in passive-aggressive discontent until we eventually fire the person we’ve all been rolling our eyes at. Or worse, we avoid firing him until everyone good quits.
It’s time to give teams the same attention and craft we give our products. Christina will share the lessons from top companies in the Silicon Valley for you to take back to your teams. It doesn’t matter if you are a manager or a peer leader, these approaches will make your team thrive. Awesome products come from awesome teams, so it’s time to stop doing business as usual and design a team for impact.
Valuable Agile Retrospectives - Book Launch for SPIder - Ben LindersBen Linders
Presentation given at the SPIder Book Event to announce the Dutch edition Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives (translation from Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives).
With plenty of exercises for your personal retrospective toolbox, Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives will help you to become more proficient in doing retrospectives and to get more out of them.
Problem, what problem? Agile Impediment Board Game - ACE conference 2019 - B...Ben Linders
If your organization wants to become agile and lean, your teams need to be able to handle impediments quickly and effectively. In this game, you will practice how to recognize and analyze impediments, understand how they can hinder your team, and decide what can be done and who can take appropriate action by deploying agile and lean principles and good practices.
The impediment game played in this session teaches the five steps for handling impediments effectively.
Workshop Exercises to spice up your Agile Retrospective Agile Cambridge 201...Ben Linders
Valuable agile retrospectives provide the solution for a successful agile adoption at all levels in an organization. They help teams to reflect and learn how to apply agile practices effectively, and support managers with ideas to set conditions for their teams to grow and deliver more value.
In this mini-workshop you will experience how using different exercises can help you to spice up your agile retrospectives and get more value out of them. I will also explain the why and how of retrospectives, the business value and benefits that they can bring you, and provide tips for improving retrospectives in your teams.
In teams, you will practice exercises from the Retrospective Exercises Toolbox to experience how to effectively facilitate retrospectives.
Mini workshop retrospecting your retrospectives - Experience Agile 2020 - Be...Ben Linders
The mini-workshop Retrospecting your Retrospectives at eXperience Agile 2020 provides you with ideas to debug your agile retrospectives, find out why they aren’t working and learn how to spice them up and bring the energy back in the team.
Are your retrospective meetings not helping teams to improve? Same actions coming up every retro? People skip the retro, or find them boring? A lack of energy in the room? Chit-chatting instead of discussing real issues? No need for that, let’s retrospect your retrospectives!
In this mini-workshop, you will experience how to use retrospective exercises to debug your retrospective meetings. People will work in teams to reflect on how their retrospectives are going and will learn what they can do to make them valuable again.
It’s a highly interactive session, learning by doing. I’ll bring in my experience from 20 years of doing agile retrospectives, and will set a culture where people will share their ideas and learn.
Agile retrospectives should help teams to reflect at the end of each iteration to learn and decide what to improve and take action in the next iteration. Valuable Agile Retrospectives provide the solution for a successful agile adoption at all levels in the organization. They help teams to reflect and learn how to apply agile practices effectively, and support managers with ideas to set conditions for their teams to grow and deliver more value.
But sometimes retrospectives don’t live up their expectation. Problems that can happen are:
The same questions (what went well, what to improve) are being asked
Similar actions keep coming up in every retrospective
Nothing happens after the meeting, actions are not done
People are postponing or skipping the retrospective meeting
Team members complain that retrospectives are boring and a waste of time
There’s a lack of energy in the room during the meeting, people are not engaged
People don’t feel safe to speak up and share their view
Discussions in the retrospective are not about the real problems (elephant in the room)
The retrospective facilitator is leading people towards a pre-defined answer/solution
In this session, teams will be doing 5 different exercises. In a time slot of two hours, teams rotate to do 2-3 of them.
Intended audience: Scrum masters, agile coaches, tech leads, developers, testers, operations, and anyone who facilitates retrospectives.
This session includes ideas published in my book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives, practices from the Retrospective Exercises Toolbox, and agile coaching tools available in my webshop. It’s partly based on things that I teach in one of my workshops: Increasing Organizational Agility with Retrospectives.
Learning Objectives:
Learn to use exercises to reflect on your current practice of retrospectives
See how to create a safe and productive environment to run retrospectives
Practice effective skills for facilitating retrospectives and getting people engaged
How agile are you? - Agile New England 2021 - Ben LindersBen Linders
On April 1, 2021, (no joke) I did an Agile 101 for Agile New England where we played the Agile Self-assessment Game online.
The Agile Self-assessment Game: How Agile Are You? by Ben Linders
The Agile Self-assessment Game is an Agile ” compass & map” to find out where you are and inspire you with ideas and suggestions on where to go next on your agile journey. It’s a cooperative card game to discover how agile you are and what you can do to increase your agility to deliver more value to their customers and stakeholders.
In this session, Ben Linders explored how a game can enable people to pull in ideas for change and apply those in a way that best suits their collective needs. And we have played with the Agile self-assessment cards online.
Ben Linders is an Independent Consultant in Agile, Lean, Quality, and Continuous Improvement. As an adviser, trainer, and coach, he helps organizations with effectively deploying software development and management practices. He focuses on continuous improvement, collaboration and communication, and professional development, to deliver business value to customers. Ben is an active member of networks on Agile, Lean, and Quality, and a well-known speaker and author. Creator of many Agile Coaching Tools, for example, the Agile Self-assessment Game.
Scene setting: Recent trends in Process ImprovementBen Linders
Recently I was the host of the Unicom Conference “Recent Trends in Process Improvement” in Amsterdam. My scene setting talk explained to the audience why we need to uncover better ways to do process improvement. This blog post takes a deeper look at the needs of the business and customers for process improvement, and discusses some solutions to find better ways to do it.
Mini workshop Retrospecting your Retrospectives - Agilenext 2019 - Ben LindersBen Linders
Are your retrospective meetings not helping teams to improve? Same actions every time, people skip them, find them boring, lack of energy in the room?
This session provides ideas to recognize retrospective smells, debug your agile retrospectives, and find out when and why they aren’t working.
Let’s practice how to make retrospectives valuable again!
Lean Impediment Game - Lean Kanban France 2017 - Ben LindersBen Linders
The game consists of a deck of impediment cards, a list of agile and lean good practices, and an impediment board. This game has Lean/Kanban cards and supports Lean/Kanban thinking to solve problems.
Agile Retrospectives can be used to investigate quality issues or to agree upon actions that can improve the quality of the software that is delivered. They complement testing and provide solutions to learn and build quality in from the start. An agile retrospective is a practice for teams to reflect, learn, and to continuously become better in what they do. They focus on the process to help teams to improve products and deliver more value.
Personal Agility: From Personal Satisfaction to Professional ImpactPeter Stevens
Personal Agility is a simple, easy-to-use framework to help you figure out and do more of what really matters. Personal Agility connects what you do with who you are and who you want to be. Personal Agility is also a simple leadership framework to help you build alignment throughout your organization.
Do you have too much to do and not enough time to do it? This talk give answers, shares case studies, and shows how you can use this simple framework to do more that matters and less that doesn't!
As presented at Torino Agile Conference, February 3, 2018
Improving your quality and testing skills with gamification - Spring 2021 Onl...Ben Linders
For the first time, I’m doing a session at the Online Testing Conference. I’ll be playing games with the Agile Testing Coaching Cards and Agile Quality Coaching Cards to help people explore how things are going and to improve their way of working.
Improving Your Quality and Testing Skills with Gamification
So many challenges, so little time. As testers we need to sharpen the saw, but how? Gamification can be a way to look at how you’re doing and find out where to improve. It’s a great way to have everyone involved and get the best out of people.
In this presentation, Ben Linders will play games with the Agile Testing Coaching Cards and Agile Quality Coaching Cards to show how you can explore your current quality and testing practice and decide in your team on what to improve or experiment with.
Players can use the coaching cards to discuss quality and testing values, principles, and practices. In teams, people can use the cards to share their experiences and learnings.
Different game formats can be used to share experiences on testing and quality principles and practices and explore how they can be applied effectively.
Takeaways
Show how to use gamification to self-assess your current way of working.
Play games with the Agile Testing Coaching Cards and Agile Quality Coaching Cards.
Explore how to facilitate games to enhance quality and testing in agile teams.
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OnlineTestConf was the first 100% online conference to provide all the advantages of attending professional QA related conferences: personal learning, networking etc. without the shortcomings of scheduling, expenses and travel. The conference has been running for the past 5 years on a semi-annual basis, long before COVID-19 forced all live events online.
Our next event will be our 10th OnlineTestConf! Conference attendees are from all parts of the world, we host well known speakers as well as young presenters, and discuss everything that relates to Testing and QA. Attendance is and will remain free of charge and we invite anyone who sees themselves involved in testing and the testing community to join.
Spicing up agile retrospectives - TopConf Linz 2017 - Ben LindersBen Linders
The agile manifesto proposes a “team reflects on how to become more effective”. Agile retrospectives can be used to inspect and adapt the way of working. Ben Linders, co-author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives, will talk about the why, what and how of agile retrospectives, with many practical tips, stories, and examples.The agile manifesto proposes that a “team reflects on how to become more effective”. Agile retrospectives can be used to inspect and adapt the way of working. Ben Linders, co-author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives, will talk about the why, what and how of agile retrospectives, with many practical tips, stories, and examples.
Retrospectives help teams to deploy agile practices in an effective way. The retrospective facilitator (often the Scrum master) should have a toolbox of retrospective exercises, and be able to pick the most effective ones. Retrospectives are a great way for teams to improve their way of working, to become more agile and lean. Getting actions out of a retrospective that are doable, and getting them done helps teams to learn and improve continuously.
VS Live 2021 Orlando - vst14 feedback skillsAngela Dugan
Feedback helps us to build stronger teams, supports more effective problem-solve and collaboration, and ultimately contributes to delivering better products. Without it, we can spend time focusing on the wrong things, solving the wrong problems, maybe not even knowing about problems in the first place!
So if feedback is critical to us growing and thriving, why aren't we all excitedly showering each other with feedback all the time, and BEGGING others to give it to us? In my experience, people are generally not enthusiastic or confident in their ability to give feedback. Feedback usually isn't happening because feedback feels risky, vulnerable, scary, even downright anxiety-inducing.
As a manager, leader, and coach of many teams over the last 20+ years, I can help you get a good foothold on where to start. Even better, I can tell you where the bodies are buried so you avoid some of the mistakes I've experienced over the years too.
In this session, we'll warm up with an overview of what feedback is and is not. We'll also review the qualities of high-quality feedback, as well as the other kinds of feedback so you know the difference. We'll finish off with a quick summary of some "tips and tricks" to getting comfortable with giving and receiving candid feedback that has worked really well for me. You'll be a feedback champion before you know it!
Keynote Need for Continuous Improvement - Agile Tour Kaunas 2016 - Ben LindersBen Linders
Agile isn’t a silver bullet, and it’s not a one size fits all approach. Continuous improvement is what makes it work, it’s at the heart of agile. Ben will show why continuous improvement matters in agile and what you can do to help your teams and organization to be more agile.
Agile Quality: maximize results with a small quality team, Ben Linders, Europ...Ben Linders
The Ericsson Operational Development & Quality team has managed to introduce a new Management System with a process baseline, rolled out measurements throughout the organization using a Balanced ScoreCard approach, and kept up a focused continuous improvement program. This presentation shows how (obstacles, KSF, results).
At all times, management has made clear that they need control of all aspects of the operation. With a collaborated approach of management and Operational Development (OD), the balanced scorecard was introduced. OD has streamlined target setting, monthly reporting, and quarterly management reviews. The monthly report has been enhanced from a figures only report to full analysis, action definition and forecasting per reported target, involving the line by means of feedback interviews.
A Management System was introduced, moulding and optimizing the existing organisation structure, authorities, and policies. With this management system, the set of processes was reduced, and process support was re-enforced.
A continuous improvement program was continued, with more focus on organizational targets. Existing tools like audits, root cause analysis, and improvement sessions were used to extract vital few actions together with line and project management; the resulting actions were tracked to completing by the OD team.
Key success factors have been the management commitment & active support, the drive of the OD & Quality team, and the build up of skills and knowledge that was needed to implement the changes. Cross-organizational co-operation was stimulated, and management was involved through the monthly reporting & feedback cycle. This presentation will give examples of this, and hints & tips on how to exploit these key success factors in your own organization.
The result is an efficient organization, capable of running projects and supporting activities in a largely quantitative managed way, meeting the required business results.
Scrum and Personal Agility are simple frameworks for getting good at getting the right things done. Scrum is team-based framework, Personal Agility is an individual or pair-oriented framework. How are they similar? And how does Personal Agility help you in contexts where Scrum is not appropriate?
Retrospectives helpen je om agile effectief toe te passen continu te verbeteren. Je pakt ermee problemen aan en zorgt voor een goede werksfeer in je teams. Scrum masters en Agile coaches halen meer uit teams met behulp van een toolbox met retrospective oefeningen.
In deze mini-workshop geeft Ben Linders, auteur van het succesvolle boek Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives, een introductie van de “waarom” en “wat” van retrospectives. Je oefent verschillende manieren om retrospectives te doen en krijgt tips en adviezen voor het introduceren en verbeteren van retrospectives.
Driving improvements with Agile Retrospectives - Project and Product Manageme...Ben Linders
Agile retrospectives have become a practice that is used by many teams to inspect and adapt their way of working. They provide insight into the activities performed and show how people are working together to deliver products
Did you know that you can also use agile retrospectives to drive improvements in projects and for products?
In his keynote, Ben Linders will explain what agile retrospectives are, how you can do them, and how they compare to project evaluations, post-mortems, and lessons-learned sessions. He will explore how you can join agile retrospectives as a project manager or product manager and the business benefits that agile retrospectives can bring.
Sustainable Improvement through Agile Retrospectives - AgileEE 2015 - Ben Li...Ben Linders
Buy-in from professionals is crucial to make changes succeed in organizations. Many improvement programs fail when professionals are insufficiently involved during the changes. Agile retrospectives can be used to do continuous and lasting improvements in organizations. They are owned and done by the teams, who decide when, where, and how they will change their way of working. This is why agile retrospectives are a sustainable approach for improvement.
We need to uncover better ways to do improvements in organizations. Use an iterative approach for change with short-cycled improvements and frequent feedback to learn how to improve and get better in doing it. Agile retrospectives are a better way to do continuous improvement. Teams decide when, where, and how they will change their way of working, in stead of having the changes dictated by managers or quality/process people. Retrospectives give power to the teams and help them to become self-organized.
My first book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives – A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises contains many exercises that you can use to do retrospectives, supported with the “what” and “why” of retrospectives, the business value and benefits that they can bring you, and advice for introducing and improving retrospectives.
Why, what, an How of Agile Retrospectives - Lean Kanban Benelux 2015 - Ben Li...Ben Linders
Retrospectives help teams to deploy agile practices in an effective way and to continuously learn and improve themselves.The retrospective facilitator (often the scrum master) should have a toolbox of retrospective exercises, and be able to pick the most effective one.
Learning to Become Agile, with Retrospectives - QCon London 2015 - Ben LindersBen Linders
The agile manifesto proposes that a “team reflects on how to become more effective”. Agile retrospectives can be used to inspect and adapt the way of working. They help teams to become agile by deploying agile practices in an effective way and continuously learning and improve themselves.
This talk explains the “what” and “why” of retrospectives and the business value and benefits that they can bring. Examples will be given of exercises that you can use to facilitate retrospectives, supported with advice for introducing and improving retrospectives. It is based on the successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives which is published on InfoQ, Amazon, Leanpub.
Retrospectives are a great way for teams to improve their way of working, to become more agile and lean. Getting actions out of a retrospective that are doable, and getting them done helps teams to improve continuously and deliver more value to their customers.
Doing Valuable Agile Retrospectives -ATBru 2014 - Ben LindersBen Linders
The agile manifesto proposes that a “team reflects on how to become more effective”. Agile retrospectives can be used to inspect and adapt the way of working. They help teams to deploy agile practices in an effective way and to continuously learn and improve themselves.But sometimes teams struggle to figure out what an agile retrospective is? And they wonder how they should do them? This presentation explains the “what” and “why” of retrospectives and the business value and benefits that they can bring. It shows several exercises from the book "Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives" to help you to facilitate retrospectives, supported with advice for introducing and improving retrospectives. Retrospectives are a great way for teams to improve their way of working, to become more agile and lean. Getting actions out of a retrospective that are doable, and getting them done helps teams to learn and improve continuously.
Valuable Agile Retrospectives - QA&Test 2014 - Ben LindersBen Linders
The agile manifesto proposes that a “team reflects on how to become more effective”. Agile retrospectives can be used to inspect and adapt the way of working. But sometimes teams struggle to figure out what an agile retrospective is? And they wonder how they should do them?
Retrospectives help teams to deploy agile practices in an effective way and to continuously learn and improve themselves.
The retrospective facilitator (often the scrum master) should have a toolbox of retrospective techniques, and be able to pick the most effective one.
This presentation explains the “what” and “why” of retrospectives and the business value and benefits that they can bring. You will experience several exercises that you can use to facilitate retrospectives, supported with advice for introducing and improving retrospectives.
Retrospectives are a great way for teams to improve their way of working, to become more agile and lean. Getting actions out of a retrospective that are doable, and getting them done helps teams to learn and improve continuously.
Ben Linders is a Senior Consultant in Agile, Lean, Quality and Process Improvement, based in The Netherlands. Co-author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives.
Spice up your agile retrospectives - LKFR14 - Ben LindersBen Linders
The agile manifesto proposes that a “team reflects on how to become more effective”. Agile retrospectives can be used to inspect and adapt the way of working. But sometimes teams struggle to figure out what an agile retrospective is? And they wonder how they should do them?
Retrospectives help teams to deploy agile practices in an effective way and to continuously learn and improve themselves.
The retrospective facilitator (often the scrum master) should have a toolbox of retrospective exercises, and be able to pick the most effective one.
This presentation explains the “what” and “why” of retrospectives and the business value and benefits that they can bring. You will experience several exercises that you can use to facilitate retrospectives, supported with advice for introducing and improving retrospectives.
Retrospectives are a great way for teams to improve their way of working, to become more agile and lean. Getting actions out of a retrospective that are doable, and getting them done helps teams to learn and improve continuously.
The road to agility - AgileEE conference 2016 - Ben LindersBen Linders
Adopting agile often doesn’t go as smoothly as expected in an organization. The road to agility can be hard to travel: You can’t plan your journey up front and there will be surprises along the way. Becoming agile is a learning process which requires that you reflect regularly and adopt your way of working, finding better ways to travel.
Ben Linders will explore what teams, agile coaches, Scrum masters, and managers can do to be prepared for a journey to agility, what to pack and how to decide which road to follow along the way. This talk will help you to successfully deploy ideas and practices that you’ve learned at the conference.
Need for Continuous Improvement in Agile - 1stconf Melbourne 2016 - Ben LindersBen Linders
Agile isn't a silver bullet, and it’s not a one size fits all approach. Continuous improvement is what makes it work, it’s at the heart of agile. Ben will show why continuous improvement matters in agile and what you can do to help your teams and organization to be more agile.
Sustainable Improvement Through Retrospectives - SEPG Europe 2013 - Ben LindersBen Linders
Buy-in from professional is crucial to make changes succeed in organizations. Many improvement programs fail when professionals are insufficiently involved during the changes. Agile retrospectives can be used to do continuous and lasting improvements in organizations. They are owned and done by the teams, who decide when, where, and how they will change their way of working. This is why agile retrospectives are a sustainable approach for improvement.
For a summary of this presentation, see http://www.benlinders.com/2013/sustainable-improvement-through-agile-retrospectives/.
Real Agile Value with Agile Retrospectives - The making of...Ben Linders
Ben Linders takes you on a journey about writing and self-publicing books. He talk about how the book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives started, explain how he works remotely with his co-author Luis Gonçalves and how the book has been translated to Dutch by a self-organized agile team of volunteers.
Valuable Agile Retrospectives: The Making of - XP Days 2014 - Ben LindersBen Linders
Writing a book by two people who never met each other face 2 face when they wrote, published and promoted the book is an amazing experience! Having it translated by self organized agile teams all around the world makes it awesome!!! Come and hear how we did this and what made it work, and learn how you can effectively work with people all around the world.
In 2013 Luis Gonçalves and I wrote the book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives. We did this by working together fully remote. We self-published it in December 2013 and gained many readers worldwide. We never met each other in person until April 2014, and are still collaborating to promote the book and helping teams worldwide to get more value out of doing agile retrospectives.
In 2014 we started with teams of volunteers all around the world to translate our book. Working remotely with people that you don't know, from different cultures, with their own ways of working, and on different continents is certainly challenging, but it turned out to be an effective and fun way to do it!
Join this session to learn:
- how you can get to know people and work together remote, i.e. without meeting face 2 face;
- which tools you can use to collaborate and communicate when working remote together;
- how you can translate a book with self organized distributed agile teams of volunteers;
- and how value, trust and respect can make it all possible.
During this interactive presentation, you will explore the Scrum master’s role and you will see examples of how to do it in an effective way. Humor combined with valuable insights and ideas.
Learning at Scale - FlowCon France 2019 - Ben LindersBen Linders
Where we are seeing more and more individual and team level learning and continuous improvement in organizations, improvements at the higher levels still tend to pose significant challenges. We learn as a team and learn how to be a team, but when we reach the borders of our team and have to deal with more complex systems involving people from our ecosystem and even sometimes from people outside our ecosystem, many improvement practices break down and don’t lead to sustainable results. At the same time, the bigger and more complex our solutions become, the more we need to be able to secure improvement at all levels in the organization.
In this talk, Ben Linders will explore what we can do to increase our understanding of systematic problems at higher levels in organizations, and how to use that to improve the performance and agility of organizations. He will show how we can apply techniques like system/multi-team retrospectives and systems thinking to get improvement going at a level of two higher than the team, and present the benefits that this can bring to teams and organizations as a whole.
Teams what is in it for me - Agile Portugal 2019 - Ben LindersBen Linders
Agile talks a lot about self-organized teams, where developers and testers work together to deliver software. But what can you do to make teams succeed? This talk explores why people would like to work in teams, what managers can do to enable a team structure and culture, and how to (not) manage agile teams.
Agile Retrospectives to the Next Level - Organizational Agility - OOP 2020 - ...Ben Linders
Agile Retrospectives can be used to deal with problems in teams, at a project or product level, or those related to the collaboration between the team and stakeholders. But you need a different approach compared to team level retrospectives to do organizational-wide improvement.
This session shows how to use agile retrospectives to reveal and solve systemic organizational problems and to increase the company’s agility It explores different approaches, formats, and techniques for agile retrospectives that are done beyond the development team.
Extended Abstract
Nowadays many agile teams are doing retrospectives regularly. They are investing their time to reflect, learn, and take action to improve their way of working and deal with problems that they are facing in a structural way.
Organizations are seeing the benefits from this: teams that are becoming empowered, being able to deliver more value to customers and stakeholders, happy employees, and fewer people leaving the organization. It’s time to take retrospectives to a higher level, and use them to reveal and solve systemic organizational problems. Agile Retrospectives can be used to do that, but you need a different approach.
In this session, I will show how we can use retrospectives to improve the agility of organizations.
Note: Some might call the above approach scaling retrospectives. If that goes towards imposing how teams do retrospectives with some kind of framework, then I believe it doesn’t work. Increasing agility with retrospectives is about creating an environment where teams not only focus on their own improvement needs but also on the company as a whole, and get support from management when improvements go over their team borders or outside their autonomy.
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On the agenda today …
• “What” and “why” of Retrospectives
• Business Value and Benefits
• Enabling Retrospectives
• Retrospective Exercises and Examples
With agile retrospectives teams drive their own actions!
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State of Practice
Agile Retrospectives
Doing them?
Like doing them?
Valuable?
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Agile Retrospectives
Practice for teams to reflect on their way of working
and to continuously become better in what they do.
Focus upon
• Teamworking
• Self organizing
What is an Agile Retrospectives
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Retrospectives with Kanban
• Fixed cycle / cadence
Every week / 2 weeks, etc
• When needed
Impediment raised / Stand up
stop-the-line
Issue board
Start from where you are
Kaizen, small continuous steps
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Prime Directive
“Regardless of what we discover, we understand
and truly believe that everyone did the best job
they could, given what they knew at the time,
their skills and abilities, the resources available,
and the situation at hand.”
Norm Kerth http://www.retrospectives.com/
Create an Open Culture
where team member Speak Up
with Respect for each other
to Learn and Improve
Prime Directive in 9 Languages Soft Skills Matter
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Why Retrospectives?
To help teams to solve problems and improve themselves!
• Becoming Agile and Lean
• Make existing processes more Agile
• Increase Value of Agile
• Less resistance to Change
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Team Development
Excellent teams:
• are self organized & take responsibility
• where people collaborate & interact
• and learn and improve themselves
Agile Retrospectives:
empower teams
help teams to take action
enable sustainable improvement
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Enabling Retrospectives
Adopting retrospectives is an organizational change
where professionals adapt their way of working, their
behavior - It won’t just happen, and if not properly
supported it may take much time, or even fail.
Adopting Agile Retrospectives
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Purpose of Retrospectives
• With team’s authority comes
responsibility for WoW
• No “first time right”
• Ok to fail, if you learn from it
• Continuous improvement
Sustainable Improvement through Agile Retrospectives
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Capable Retrospective Facilitators
Facilitated by capable professionals:
• Qualified facilitators
• Train: Purpose, techniques, skills
• Mentoring & coaching
• Communities of Practice
Agile Improvement
Effective and Efficient Retrospectives:
More Impact
Less time
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Do and Evaluate Retrospectives
Start with retrospectives in your first iteration
Simple technique: asking questions or boat exercise
Evaluate the Retrospective:
• Is this useful?
• Helps to get a shared understanding?
• Do the actions make sense?
• Does meeting as a team to reflect feel good?
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Vital Few Actions
• Small Actions
• Frequent Change
• Focus on Value
• Stop Starting,
Start Stopping
• Kanban
Short Cycled Improvement Vital Few Actions
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Example: Failed sprint
The Sprint that failed One-Word Exercise:
• Deal with Feelings
• Trust & Respect
• Empowerment
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Example: Not able to improve
The team that wasn’t a team yet 5-Times Why exercise
• Getting to know each other
• Collaborate
• Skills to Improve
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Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises
• Teams differ
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• More value
You can plan a retrospective meeting,
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Toolbox of Retrospective Techniques
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Retrospective Exercises
• Asking questions
• One-word retrospective
• Root Cause Analysis
• Timeline
• Flow and Energy
• Asking Why?
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• Action priorities
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• Remote Teams
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Designing your Retrospective
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Spicing Up your Retrospective
Valuable Agile Retrospectives:
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Assessing your Agility
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