Liz Keogh

@lunivore

October 2012

The 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.

The Safety Check (numbers)

1. I am going to nod and stay quiet.

2. I might talk about some things I want to fix.

3. I will share my opinions, but I’ll stay away from some controversial stuff.

4. I will talk frankly but sensitively.

5. I feel safe to say anything in front of this group.

The Safety Check (ESVW)

Explorer:I want to discover

as muchas I can.

Shopper:There are some

things which I wantto get from this

session.

Vacationer:I am happy

to behere.

Worker:I am willing

to be here.

Check on last iteration

Were the actions completed?

If not, are they still important?

If so, did they make a difference?

Starfish

More of Less of

Stop doingStart doing

Keep doing

The Land Ahead

The land we

left behindSlowing us

down

What do you want

to take with you?

The land

ahead

Six Thinking Hats- Edward de Bono

Futurespectives

Start of

the

project

Release 1

Legacy

system

turned

offLegacy

system

turned

back

on again

Working

overtime

and

weekends

PM

negotiates

scope

cut

Project

release

party!

Everyone

votes for

C# as

language

Prioritising

Changing

code causes

too many

bugs

Code base

hard to

work with

Too muchtechnical

debt

The buildis tooslow

Unit testsreally

helped me

Taking time to

refactor made

my story

easier

Grouping

Voting

Wrapping it up

Liz to teach

unit-level

BDD

PM to negotiate

25% less new

stuff this

iteration

Concrete actions

Owners

The Dangers of Retrospectives

What do you think could go wrongwhen retrospectives are introducedinto a company or a new project?