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The Art of the RetrospectiveGE Cambridge
Thursday, 20 February 2014
Chris Smith and Paul Stephenson
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The Art of the RetrospectiveWhat can go wrong with sprint retrospectives and how to fix them
GE CambridgeThursday, 20 February 2014
Chris Smith and Paul Stephenson
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Chris SmithProject Manager
Paul StephensonProject Manager
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Introductions
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What is a Retrospective Meeting?
“Special meeting that takes place at the end of a period of work – usually an iteration or software release.In a retrospective, a team steps back, examines the way they work, analyses and identifies ways they can improve” Esther Derby
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Inspect and adapt: What we develop
We will always know more
than we know here
ReleaseRelease
ReleaseRelease
Release
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Inspect and adapt: How we work
We will always know more about how we work together on the project than we know
here
RetrospectiveRetrospective
RetrospectiveRetrospective
Retrospective
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Retrospectives can be perfunctory
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Retrospectives can be unpopular
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Retrospectives can be unpopular
My team are literally allergic to the word ‘Retrospective’
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Retrospectives can be unpopular
My team talk to each other and we fix things when they come up (you idiot)
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Retrospectives can be unpopular
My team/project is special because [reason], so we don’t do retrospectives
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So…
“Let’s not bother”or worse
“Let’s continue ticking the box”
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Retrospectives can be transformative
Inspecting and adapting through
retrospectives
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How do you run an effective and engaging Sprint Retrospective?
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References
Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great (Derby and Larsen)
Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers (Gray, Brown and Macanufo)
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How do you run an effective and engaging Sprint Retrospective?
• Prepare well• Deliberately facilitate• Keep to Retrospective Framework• Vary activities• Create good actions
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Prepare Well
• Invest time• Decide focus &
agenda• Gather people,
help, materials, snacks
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Deliberately Facilitate
• Clear & confident• Aware• Don’t contribute
(too much)
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Keep to the Retrospective Framework
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‘Heinz 57 Varieties’ by Pat C. Klein
Vary retrospective activities
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Set the stage
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Choose a ‘Goldilocks’ goal
Too closed Too open Just right
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Find ways to improve our physical work environment?
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Check-in
Everyone answers a question in one or two words:
How was the sprint for you?What is on your mind right now?
Activity
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Check-in
How is your physical office environment?
Activity
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Check-inActivity
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Set the stage: Other activities
• Focus On/Focus Off• Explorer, Shopper, Vacationer,
Prisoner• Desert Island
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Gather data
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Pair Interviews
• Pair-up, each person to interview the other• Not a conversation; encourage interviewees to
keep to the role• Pose a question like “What were the high and
low points of this sprint?”• Report back
Activity
Activity
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Pair Interviews
• Interview about satisfaction with physical work environment this year
• Interviewer, ask:– when the person felt most satisfied?– why was is satisfying?– when the person felt least satisfied?– why was is dissatisfying?
• Three minutes to interview, then we swap
Activity
Activity
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Other activities to gather data
• Team Poll• Timeline• Short Subjects– Mad/Sad/Glad– Stop/Start/Continue
• Learning Matrix• Like to Like card game
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Generate insights
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Mission Impossible
Take an existing challenge/goal and change a fundamental aspect that makes it seem impossible
Activity
“How do we remove all our technical debt… in a day?”“How do we add a feature… without writing any code?”
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Mission Impossible
How do we turn your office into the perfect environment…
in 24 hours?
Activity
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Other activities to generate insights
• Fishbone diagram• Force Field Analysis• Challenge Cards• De Bono’s 6 Thinking Hats• Flip it• Anti-problem• Pre-Mortem
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Decide what to do
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• Each person has paper divided into ~4 sections• Idea added in 1st section • Paper passed to next person who builds on idea
Brain-writingActivity
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Given what you have heard and seen, what should you do?
Brain-writingActivity
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Prioritize what to do
Activities to prioritize:• Dot voting• £100 Test• Absolute order• Personal commitment
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Action creation tips
Not sure exactly what to tackle?Arrange an experiment
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Action creation tips
Not sure how to make a mind-set or direction change actually happen?Introduce an artefact or activity
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Action creation tips
Team seems unsure or noncommittal?Measure with ‘Five-Fingered Consensus’
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Close the retrospective
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Close the retrospective: Feedback wall
Activity
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Structuring a retrospective
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How do you run an effective and engaging Sprint Retrospective?
• Prepare well• Deliberately facilitate• Keep to Retrospective Framework• Vary activities• Create good actions
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ReferencesAgile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great (Derby and Larsen)
Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers (Gray, Brown and Macanufo)
http://www.plans-for-retrospectives.com/http://retrospectivewiki.org/