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Rory’s Story Cubes Retrospective

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Simone D'Amico
Simone D'Amico

How to improve effectiveness of your retrospective with Rory's Story Cubes. Story Cubes enable people to tell their stories encouraging the storytelling. This feature can be used in your retrospective to connect the team on an emotional level.

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Rory’s Story Cubes Retrospective Simone D’Amico - Agile Developer @ ideato
- Enable people to tell their stories encouraging the story telling - Based on conceptual reasoning which brain is great at making links between things - 9 cubes to construct a complete story: beginning (3), middle part (3), the end (3) - More than 10M of combinations
Rory’s Story Cubes Retrospective
Retrospective with Story Cubes - Sprint for each team is a different story with its own ups and downs, negative and positive emotions of its characters - Story Cubes enables to connect the team on an emotional level
PROs - create relaxed environment and encourage more contribution from attendees - prevent retrospective standardization - adaptable to different retrospective formats thanks to different Story Cubes sets - recommended in teams with difficulty to bring out problems or team members with “blank page syndrome”
CONs - mistrust in randomness - not suitable for remote approach - not suitable for large teams
Ice-Breaking “Last sprint was great because…”
Look Back “Last sprint ɲ…ĝ
Gathering Insights Discuss about the way things went down, issues, ideas, …
Look forward “What should we do differently next sprint to be more successful?”
Closing “Next sprint will be better because…”
Rory’s Story Cubes Retrospective
THANKS sd@ideato.it @dymissy
Image Credits • http://pelnapara.znadplanszy.pl/2014/12/02/do-plecaka-15-seria- story-cubes-sila-wyobrazni/ • http://www.leyleyleu.com/new-page/ • https://juegosdemesayrol.com/juegos-de-mesa/juegos-de-dados/ • http://www.deskovehry.com/en/review-rorys-story-cubes-voyages- max/ • http://grynaplanszy.blogspot.it/2013/04/story-cubes-actions.html • http://www.familing.it/story-cubes-non-ci-risposte-sbagliate/ • http://lalogopedadelcole.blogspot.it/2014/02/inventamos- cuentos.html • https://www.infoq.com/news/2015/05/story-cubes • http://tastycupcakes.org/2015/01/story-cube-time-line/ • http://www.agilecafe.org/story-cubes-build-your-story-with- cubes-in-the-next-retrospective/ • http://aspirent.com/making-retrospectives-fun-and-engaging/ • https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/story-cubes-my-experiments- safe-agilist-csp-csm-m3-0-trainer/ • http://www.cocoonprojects.com/labs/rory-story-cubes/serious- game-rorys-story-cubes-starting-journey/ Credits

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Rory’s Story Cubes Retrospective

  • 1. Rory’s Story Cubes Retrospective Simone D’Amico - Agile Developer @ ideato
  • 2. - Enable people to tell their stories encouraging the story telling - Based on conceptual reasoning which brain is great at making links between things - 9 cubes to construct a complete story: beginning (3), middle part (3), the end (3) - More than 10M of combinations
  • 4. Retrospective with Story Cubes - Sprint for each team is a different story with its own ups and downs, negative and positive emotions of its characters - Story Cubes enables to connect the team on an emotional level
  • 5. PROs - create relaxed environment and encourage more contribution from attendees - prevent retrospective standardization - adaptable to different retrospective formats thanks to different Story Cubes sets - recommended in teams with difficulty to bring out problems or team members with “blank page syndrome”
  • 6. CONs - mistrust in randomness - not suitable for remote approach - not suitable for large teams
  • 7. Ice-Breaking “Last sprint was great because…”
  • 9. Gathering Insights Discuss about the way things went down, issues, ideas, …
  • 10. Look forward “What should we do differently next sprint to be more successful?”
  • 11. Closing “Next sprint will be better because…”
  • 14. Image Credits • http://pelnapara.znadplanszy.pl/2014/12/02/do-plecaka-15-seria- story-cubes-sila-wyobrazni/ • http://www.leyleyleu.com/new-page/ • https://juegosdemesayrol.com/juegos-de-mesa/juegos-de-dados/ • http://www.deskovehry.com/en/review-rorys-story-cubes-voyages- max/ • http://grynaplanszy.blogspot.it/2013/04/story-cubes-actions.html • http://www.familing.it/story-cubes-non-ci-risposte-sbagliate/ • http://lalogopedadelcole.blogspot.it/2014/02/inventamos- cuentos.html • https://www.infoq.com/news/2015/05/story-cubes • http://tastycupcakes.org/2015/01/story-cube-time-line/ • http://www.agilecafe.org/story-cubes-build-your-story-with- cubes-in-the-next-retrospective/ • http://aspirent.com/making-retrospectives-fun-and-engaging/ • https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/story-cubes-my-experiments- safe-agilist-csp-csm-m3-0-trainer/ • http://www.cocoonprojects.com/labs/rory-story-cubes/serious- game-rorys-story-cubes-starting-journey/ Credits