The Retrospective Handbook: A guide for agile teams by Mr Patrick Kua

By Mr Patrick Kua

Are you operating retrospectives on a regular basis? might be you run retrospectives as soon as every week, or fortnightly. Do you're feeling such as you may be getting extra from your retrospectives and fuelling non-stop development on your groups? you'll already locate retrospectives priceless, yet suspect there are methods of creating them larger. This publication condenses down 8 years of expertise operating with the retrospective perform in the context of genuine agile groups. It will give you perform suggestion on find out how to make your retrospectives much more powerful together with issues similar to:

  • Best the right way to arrange for a retrospective
  • Picking simply the ideal materials
  • Facilitating retrospectives with ease
  • Dealing with universal retrospective smells
  • Retrospectives in numerous contexts together with allotted, huge and small groups
  • A list for preparation
  • Ensuring retrospectives bring about change
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These things happen, but whatever you do, don’t allow them to become the normal course of events for a heartbeat retrospective as it will significantly diminish the value of the shared common story and the input gathered from different perspectives. Work with the team leader to identify a minimum set of participants, or at least some Preparing for Retrospectives 34 criteria for postponing the retrospective (eg. four out of nine members missing). Send invitations from an electronic calendar to all participants and request confirmation of attendance on the day.

Once everyone has finished writing, you collect up their stickies and read the data to the whole team as you post them on the wall or flip chart. You can also ask the group to suggest where they feel that data should be grouped. Group related items to reduce duplication and seek themed clusters before using the clusters to drive more discussion. This technique also prevents ‘Group Think’² since everyone works on their own to begin with. The result is a wider variety of input from many perspectives, which leads to a higher probability of gaining different insights.

Ensure you complete the circle each time as skipping people sends the wrong message if some participants ask or answer more questions First-Time Facilitation Tips 50 than others. Another technique you might employ to prevent one person dominating is the Margolis Wheel [MARGO]. To set up a Margolis Wheel, arrange pairs of chairs (from four to six) in a circle as shown in the diagram below. Six pairs of chairs arranged in the Margolis Wheel Choose a topic and ask for everyone to sit in a chair. Those on the inner ring are considered Counsellors, those on the outer ring Clients.

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