2. 1. RETROSPECTIVE FUNDAMENTALS
Key question
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れ 覦覯 螻, 讌, 螻 蟆郁骸 襷り鍵
What is the Retrospective Prime Directive and why should I care?
How can I improve how I facilitate retrospectives?
How important is an independent facilitator?
How do I run a distributed retrospective effectively?
What different types of retrospectives do people run?
What can I do to keep retrospectives fresh?
How do we make sure that we get results from the retrospective?
3. 1. RETROSPECTIVE FUNDAMENTALS
螻 るジ 企
譯曙螻 覈 讌覩襦 豌伎
一 覯豺 磯ジ 螳讌 覲螳
企ゼ 豌危(postmortem changes) 豌企
手 .
Lessons learned or Lessons learnt are
experiences distilled from a project that should
be actively taken into account in future projects.
4. 1. RETROSPECTIVE FUNDAMENTALS
覦覯襦覲 螻
Methodology Practice or Principle
Extreme Programming Fix XP When It Breaks
Scrum Sprint Retrospective practice
Crystal Clear Reflective Improvement
Adaptive SW Development Learn
Lean SW Development Amplify Learning
Kanban Improve Collaboratively
DSDM Atern Timebox Close-Out
RUP Adapt the Process
6. A Simple framework
1. RETROSPECTIVE FUNDAMENTALS
1. Set the Stage
2. Gather Data
3. Generate Insights
4. Decide What to Do
5. Close the Retrospective
7. The ladder of inference
1. RETROSPECTIVE FUNDAMENTALS
Take Action - Do something!
Form Beliefs - Reinforce or form new.
Come to conclusions - It must be this
way.
Make Assumptions - Think we know what
others motivation is.
Affixed Meaning - Is this a threat or
benefit to me?
Select Data & Experience - Whats left
after we filter?
Real Data & Experience - What really
happened?
8. The ladder of inference
1. RETROSPECTIVE FUNDAMENTALS
9. a model depicting retrospective impact
Team
Dynamics
Environment
1. RETROSPECTIVE FUNDAMENTALS
11. 2. PREPARING FOR RETROSPECTIVES
Preparing for Retrospectives
1. 螳 覲危蠍
2. 螻糾 覲危蠍
3. 蟲 譴觜蠍
蠍磯蟲
覈螳 襦
讌 譴 蟲
Flip chart paper and tack
Flip chart paper and magnets
Multiple flip charts and/or movable whiteboards
3M sticky flip charts
Static cling sheets
Sticky Notes, Index Cards. Paper
れ 蟲(蠍磯蟲, ろ一擦 )
讌 谿 蟲 (豺企, る誤)
4. 螻糾 譴觜蠍
豈 覦 煙 覦一螳 襦 螻
5. Right people, Right place, Right time
12. Preparing Checklist
2. PREPARING FOR RETROSPECTIVES
Do you know why youre here for the retrospective?
Do you know how many people will turn up?
Do you have an initial plan for how it will run?
Is there enough time to do all the exercises?
Do you have enough materials for everyone?
Does the space accommodate your exercises and the number of
participants?
Have invitations been sent to all participants?
Do you have confirmation that a quorum is present?
Have you reserved the space (including preparation and wrap-up time)?
Have you been briefed on what might come up?
Are you expected to do anything after the retrospective and have you got
time for that (eg. write a report, distribute action items, etc).
20. 4. FIRST-TIME FACILITATION TIPS
Tips
Encourage physical presence
Seek equal participation : Margolis Wheel
Avoid doing all the work yourself
Confirm your understanding
Rephrase blaming statements
keep the focus on the current phase
use a visual agenda
use a wide variety of questions
Open Ended
Probing
Redirectiong
Feedback and Clarification
Close Ended
Observe body language
Observe yourself
24. Principles
Make the most of it
Focus first on building relationships
Use video cameras at all ends
People tokens in remote locations
Prevent remote people Going Dark
Faces for everyone
Use remote facilitators
Collect input before the meeting
Use online tools to share
Agree on a signaling system
Invest in a Technographer
Run remote working groups
Remote proxies as representatives
5. DISTRIBUTED RETROSPECTIVES
26. Be aware of cultural dimensions
蟠 螳蟆 讌 (Power Distance Index, PDI)
Individualism(螳語殊) versus Collectivisms(讌譯殊)
覿れ 讌(Uncertainty Avoidance Index)
Masculinity(焔れ) versus Femininity(煙る)
Long-Term Orientation versus Short-Term Orientation
Indulgence(蟯) versus Restraint(蟲)
https://geert-hofstede.com/south-korea.html
5. DISTRIBUTED RETROSPECTIVES
28. Very Big Retrospectives
6.OTHER FLAVOURS OF
RETROSPECTIVES
Allow more time
Use multiple facilitators
Use break-out groups
Consider mixing up the groups
Lean on group work
Priorities work
Self-organise owners for actions
Use the fishbowl discussion
29. Very Small Retrospectives
6.OTHER FLAVOURS OF
RETROSPECTIVES
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Personal-Retrospectives
Clarity the Purpose
What prompted your decision?
What are you seeking to accomplish as a result of the work?
Access Decision-making Influences
Why do I choose that?
Gather Data
What happened?
How did I feel and react?
Distill the Learning
What does this tell me?
Why was it significant?
Transform Learning into Plans
What specifically will I do?
30. Very Small Retrospectives
6.OTHER FLAVOURS OF
RETROSPECTIVES
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Personal-Retrospectives
What Are My Sources Of Knowledge?
Authority (ル)
Deductive Logic (一 朱Μ)
Sense Experience (螳螳 蟆渚)
Emotion (螳)
Intuition (讌蟯)
Scientific Method (螻狩 覦覯)
What Are My Assumptions Aboud the Future?
What do i assume i will never change about myself?
What limits or expands my choices?
What do I want people to think of when they hear my name?
What Are My Values?
What is My Level of Self-appreciation?
Access Decision-making Influences
32. Very Small Retrospectives
6.OTHER FLAVOURS OF
RETROSPECTIVES
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Personal-Retrospectives
Gather Data
33. Very Small Retrospectives
6.OTHER FLAVOURS OF
RETROSPECTIVES
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Personal-Retrospectives
Distill in learning
Lists
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蟯煙 伎 覿 覲碁.
Five Whys
Why 襦 讌覓語 れ覯 覲碁.
Five What does that allow me to do? or others
Patterns and Shifts - Fact, Finding, Feeling, Future action
Radar Chart 覿蠍
OO 覦覃 企至 覦螳?
讌 ルレ 覓伎瑚?
ルレ 覓伎瑚?
螻 郁屋 るジ 覓伎 螳?
蠏 一危磯ゼ 覲願 讌覓語 企蓋.
34. Very Small Retrospectives
6.OTHER FLAVOURS OF
RETROSPECTIVES
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Personal-Retrospectives
Transform Learning into plans
Story 襷り鍵
35. Very Small Retrospectives
6.OTHER FLAVOURS OF
RETROSPECTIVES
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Personal-Retrospectives
Transform Learning into plans
SOAR Framework
40. 8. COMMON RETROSPECTIVE SMELLS
All Talk, No Action
What did you do to make the problem go away?
How did you approach fixing your own problems?
All Action, No Talk
Open Question
Conversation to controlled
Too repetitive
No preparation
Too many Goals
Poorly formed Actions
One Person owns All Actions
41. 9. KEEPING RETROSPECTIVES FRESH
Bring food
Ask different questions
Anchors and Engines
What anchors may be dragging you down?
What engines are helping you accelerate?
Hot Air Ballon
What things are acting as sandbags, slowing you down?
What things are helping you move upwards?
Train
What cargo may be slowing the train down?
What sort of fuel is helping the train go faster?
Run an energiser
Vary the activities
Change the environment
Appeal to other skill-sets
Make it less formal