One_Day_Retrospective

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GROUP RETROSPECTIVE
WORKSHOP
Facilitators: Kaveh Kalantar, Michael Brandt
Draft 3.0

LET’S GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER

GOALS OF THE SESSION
• To celebrate achievements of the last several months.
• To openly discuss and review operational performance of the last 4
sprints.
• To identify undesirable effect and their root causes.*
• To discover our strength and what we do well.
• To identify areas of improvement.
• To plan 2-4 improvement initiatives that can be implemented in the
next 2 weeks.
* For sure, we will not be able to address everything today, but we will have enough
to come up with couple of things to do for the next time.

AGENDA FOR THE REST OF THE
DAY
• Happiness Index, Attitude, Motivation and Productive Communication Activities.
• Agreeing on Retrospective Ground Rules (Working Agreement)
• Review Achievements
• Gathering and Discovering Data, Facts, Feeling/Emotions
• Identifying causes, patterns and themes
• Planning Future Actions and Agreeing on responsibilities
• Evaluating Retrospective

Happiness Index
Time-boxed: 15 min
•1. On a scale from 1 to 5 please mark how happy (or
unhappy) you
are at the moment.
1 (one) means very unhappy. 5 means very happy.
•2. What is the one thing that could make you happier?

ESVP
• Time-boxed: 20 min
• Report Individually and Anonymously if you are here as:
• Explorer: You are eager to discover new ideas and insights. You want to learn
everything you can about the project.
• Shopper: You are happy to participate, look into available information. And you are
satisfied by going home with one useful idea.
• Vacationer: You are not interested in Retrospective, but prefer to be out of office
for a day, and you may pay attention sometimes during the session.
• Prisoner: You’ve been forced to attend and prefer doing something else now.

WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THESE
DATA?
How are these categories LIKE our attitudes toward daily work?

FOCUS ON/FOCUS OFF
• Team of 2 people
• Each team takes one of the following pairs to discuss:
• Inquiry …. Rather than Advocacy
• Dialog .... Rather than Debate
• Conversation ... Rather than Argument
• Understanding ... Rather than Defending

RETROSPECTIVE WORKING
AGREEMENT
• We focus on learning, discovering and fixing.
• We will not blame, point figure.
• We will focus on the achieving the goals.
• And we agree to remove distractions: Mobiles off or on silence, and No Emailing
• We focus on understanding each other and have dialog and healthy conversation.
• We have break approximately every 90 min.
• We write in capital letter, or in a way that others can read cards or sticky notes!

Achievements

TIMELINE OF EVENTS• Time-boxed: 35 min
• Team size: 4 people
• Try to work with your day to day colleague. Such as POs together, Dev/QA Together and etc. (if not possible you can
create cross function teams)
• Let’s capture memorable events that happened in the last 4 iterations
• The goal is to see different perspectives, so do not worry about reaching consensus on what was memorable.
• Write them on Sticky notes and put them on each iteration.
• Yellow Sticky: People or Team Related or Communication Related ; Pink Sticky: Tools, technology Related ; Green
Sticky: Process or Organisation Related
• Try to write the memorable events as an observer without pointing finger, and without emotion:
• Pointing Finger: : Kaveh wrote bad quality code for Time-based Publishing.
• Observing statement: We had many defects on time-based publishing / We had 20% more defects on TBS

TIMELINE OF EMOTIONS
• Do this Individually / on your own.
• Only show your emotions or energy level during each iteration (if you
recall)
• Use colour sticky notes.
• Red: Negative or Low level Energy
• Blue: Positive or High Level Energy

WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF TIMELINE
DATA?

PATTERNS & SHIFTS
• Time-Boxed: up to 40 min
• Team of 5 people (max 6)
• Find connection between events, as well as emotions
• Identify patterns: Move sticky notes around, cluster them together if
they are related to one pattern
• Identify shift - Things was going smoothly but suddenly it got crazy.
Or things was crazy and suddenly everything started to go smoothly.

Analysis of Patterns and Shifts
•Time-Boxed: 65 min
•Team of 4 to 5 people (choose to do it with your day to day
colleague or not)
•Select a pattern that you want to analyse
•Ask WHY, and Answer.
•Do it maximum 5 times, until you reach to a root cause.
•Capture all questions and answers on flipchart.
•Then, Present your analysis to the rest of the group.

Let’s Choose what we want to work on?

RETROSPECTIVE PLANNING GAME
• Time-boxed: up to 100 min
• In pairs, brainstorm all the tasks necessary to complete improvement
recommendations.
• Eliminate redundant tasks and fill out the gaps
• Group/Cluster tasks, and Again check for duplication
• Order tasks
• Take responsibility to execute

REPORTING AND SHARING
UPDATES
• Decide How and who will produce retrospective report. (Jira,
Confluence)
• Tasks Goes to Backlog For Next Iteration

+/DELTA
• Provide feedback for retrospective.
• What to do more of, and to change next time.

APPRECIATION

Backup Activities

LOCATE STRENGTH
• Time-boxed: 25 Min
• TRY TO Form Pairs with people who you do not work on day to day.
• Stay Curious
• Give the speaker your full attention
• Take notes to remember key points
• Listen for stories and quotes to share
• This is not conversation, when you ask question then only listen.

IDENTIFY THEMES
• Create groups out of Interview pairs.
• Share and discussed stories you heard
• Identify common themes

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