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Spice up your Agile Retrospectives
The document provides references and resources for facilitating more engaging retrospective meetings, including websites, books, and exercises that can help avoid boredom and find new ways to improve retrospectives. It discusses the importance of retrospectives for helping teams reflect and adjust their behaviors to become more effective. Examples of retrospective formats, activities, and games are presented to help spark new ideas for retrospective planning.
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- 1. References to spiceup your Retrospective Wouter Gheysen www.linkedin.com/in/woutergheysen
- 2. I’m Wouter Gheysen,Certified Scrum Master and Business Growth Designer. Facilitating retrospectives is my favorite part of Scrum. Finding new ways to improve the retrospectives and avoid boredom can be a challenge. That’s the reason I’ve created a list of websites and books where great Retrospective exercises can be found. About me
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- 4. At regular intervals,the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly. - Agile Manifesto
- 5. “Retrospectives offer organizationsa formal method for preserving the valuable lessons learned from the successes and failures of every project. These lessons and the changes identified by the community will foster stronger teams and savings on subsequent efforts.” Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Reviews
- 6. Set Stage –Organize meeting – Involves setting up of the meeting by the facilitator (PM., scrum master, etc.) and sending a meeting invitation to all the required team members and stakeholders. Gather Data – Once the meeting starts, gather all the ideas, opinions, concerns that the team members might have. Generate Insights – After the data is gathered, meaningful analytics have to be identified and patterns have to be created. The idea is to identify trends and resolve them. Create Actions – Once the underlying issues are identified, create action points to resolve them and assign Wrap Up – Thank the team for their time and for their participation and share the action points. Format of a great retrospective:
- 7. Reference with great ideasto improve your Retrospective
- 8. http://www.funretrospectives.com/ Funretrospectives Activities and ideasfor making agile retrospectives more engaging Created by: Paulo Caroli & Taina TC Caetano
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- 10. http://www.gamestorming.com Gamestorming A toolkit forinnovators, rule-breakers and changemakers Created by: Dave Gray & Sunni Brown & James Macanufo
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- 17. Agile Retrospective Making Goodteams great Project retrospectives help teams examine what went right and what went wrong on a project. But traditionally, retrospectives are only helpful at the end of the project--too late to help. You need agile retrospectives that are iterative and incremental. You need to accurately find and fix problems to help the team today. Now, Derby and Larsen show you the tools, tricks, and tips you need to fix the problems you face on a software development project on an on-going basis. You'll see how to architect retrospectives in general, how to design them specifically for your team and organization, how to run them effectively, how to make the needed changes, and how to scale these techniques up. You'll learn how to deal with problems, and implement solutions effectively throughout the project--not just at the end.
- 18. Project Retrospectives A handbookfor team reviews With detailed scenarios, imaginative illustrations, and step-by-step instructions, consultant Norman L. Kerth guides readers through productive, painless retrospectives of project performance. For a retrospective to be effective and successful, though, it needs to be safe. Kerth shows facilitators and participants how to defeat the fear of retribution and establish an air of mutual trust. One tool is Kerth's Prime Directive: Regardless of what we discover, we must understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job he or she could, given what was known at the time, his or her skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand.
- 19. Getting Value outof Agile Retrospectives A handbook for team reviews 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. We present you: A new agile book with many exercises for facilitating retrospectives, supported with the “what” and “why” of retrospectives, the business value and benefits that they bring, and advice for introducing and improving retrospectives. This is a book for agile coaches, scrum masters, project managers, product managers and facilitators who already have some experience with retrospectives.
- 20. Wouter Gheysen Certified ScrumMaster www.linkedin.com/in/woutergheysen