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This presentation is a part of "Scrum: Back to Basics" series organized by NYC Scrum User Group. What is a retrospective? What are some of the frameworks for facilitating a good retrospective? What are some of the anti-patterns? This presentation sheds the light and sets the stage for the retrospective of NYC Scrum User group. Don't miss the last slide, which captures the moment!

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Dana Pylayeva

http://pixabay.com/en/globe-earth-magnifying-glass-hand-71443/

October 16, 2014

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About me

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@DanaPylayeva

NYC Scrum User Group I

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Why Retrospectives?

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http://pixabay.com/en/globe-earth-magnifying-glass-hand-71443/

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Retrospectives:Timeless Classic Books

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Retrospective Is About…

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http://pixabay.com/en/globe-earth-magnifying-glass-hand-71443/

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Agile Retrospective Framework

Stage Data Insights Action Close

6Adapted from “Agile Retrospectives. Making Good Teams Great”~ Esther Derby, Diana Larsen”

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Goal: Establish a safe container, ensure participation,

get everyone’s voice heard in the first 5 min.

Activity:

1. Ask participants to take turns in stating their currentfeelings in 1-2 words.

2. Review working agreements.

Set the stage

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Stage Data Insights Action CloseStage

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Prime Directive

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StageDatazzzzzzzzzzzzz

Insights ActionClosingStageData Insights Action Close

Gather Data

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Data

Stage

Goal: Build a shared context.

Without it people are working from a narrow set of data – their own.

Activity:

1. Build a timeline with data

2. Feelings (Emotion seismograph or labels with emotions)

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Stage DataInsights Action CloseStage Data InsightsActionClosing

Generate Insights

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Insights

Insights

Goal: Figure out what this information means

Activity:

1. Many options:

- Plus/Delta

- Stop/Start/Continue

- Appreciation/Puzzles/Risks/Wishes

2. Route Cause Analysis

- Fishbone diagram

- 5 Whys

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Stage DataInsights Action CloseStage Data InsightsActionClosing

Decide What To DoGoal: Select highest priority improvement item to act

on during the next sprint.

Action:

- Dot Voting

- Design the experiment

- Select the next steps

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Action

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Stage Data InsightsActionClosing StageDataInsights Action Closing

Close The RetrospectiveGoal: Improve the retrospective, appreciation

Activity:

1. Quick retro on retrospective

- Plus/Delta or

- Helped/Hindered/Hypothesis

2. Thank you!

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Close

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An Alternative – Six Thinking Hats

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CommonAnti-Patterns

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#1 - A whining session

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#2 - A witch hunt

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She broke

the build!

Did not

finish her

story!

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#3 - Skipping retrospectives

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ScrumMaster

Image by Pitke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_(tack)#mediaviewer/File:Strong_little_thing.jpg

ScrumTeam

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#4 - Boredom

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Image by Roman Barshay http://barshay.org/p602909396/h477e29d8#h477e29d8

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#5- Do NOTHING Retrospective

19Photo by Sali Sasaki https://www.flickr.com/photos/salisasaki/6920798999/

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#6- Make The Whole World a Better Place

20http://pixabay.com/en/district-about-arched-human-circle-291098/

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Retrospectives With Distributed Teams

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Simulating Face To Face Communication

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Simulating In-Room Experience With GoogleDocs

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…with GroupZap

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Getting Creative..

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In the room: On a WebEx( in GoogleDocs):

Combined:

Frogs that annoyed us last Sprint

Remember the future: The amazing way we worked together in next Sprint

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On-line Resources

0www.innovationgames.com

0 http://retrospectivewiki.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

0 http://www.strongandagile.co.uk/index.php/facilitating-distributed-team-retrospectives/

0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Thinking_Hats

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Tools For Distributed Retrospectives

0GoogleDoc Template from Ilio Krumins-Beens & Terrence McGovernhttps://docs.google.com/drawings/d/17cyx7QZJLpMIoVHsdlAldXfgU-cPdIg9v_XlVhhtkZU/edit

0 http://padlet.com/

0www.seenowdo.com

0 trello.com

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Many Options..

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Putting It All Together:Let’s Conduct An Experiment!

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Retrospective of NYC Scrum User Group.

October 16, 2014

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