1. How am I doing?
A Personal Retrospective on Developing My Craft
with Diana Larsen
http://futureworksconsulting.com
author of Agile Retrospectives and Liftoff
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2. Personal
Retrospective
Developing Craft
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3. Agenda
Getting Started
Looking Back
Assessing and Aspiring
Looking Forward
Wrap Up
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4. Pick Two
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5. Personal Prime Directive
Regardless of what I discover,
I understand and truly believe
that I did the best job I could,
given:
• what I knew at the time
• my current skills and abilities
• the resources & information
available to me
• and the context
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6. Looking Back
High
Points
August August
2011 2012
Low
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7. Describe Your Learning Lines
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8. What were the high points?
What were the low points?
What pattern do you see?
What aspect of your craft developed
most? least?
When did you feel most challenged?
When did you feel most exhilarated?
What confirms your expectation?
What surprises you?
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9. Assessing & Aspiring
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10. Who am I?
FOCUS
What do How do
I value? I learn?
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11. Your Simple Rules
Write 3-5 “Simple Rules” focused on developing your craft
and your personal learning
Simple Rules:
Simple and Declarative
At least one rule for each circle
Start every rule with a verb
Make it positive; what you will do, not what you won’t
Create generalizable & scalable rules
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12. Simple Rules for Agile Chartering
Focus on interrelationships of the whole, the
parts, & the greater whole.
Work together to learn, create, & discover.
Do just enough, resist perfecting.
Begin each endeavor in a context of possibility.
Learn as the work unfolds.
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13. Peer Coach to Improve Simple Rules
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14. Looking Forward
1. On Sticky Notes, one per note, write everything you’d
like to learn in the next year to improve your
craftsmanship
2. On each note, write an estimate of how much effort it
will take.
3. Give each note a rating of 1-3 (3 = highest) of how much
it could impact what you value
4. Put a butterfly sticker on the two notes you’d enjoy
most.
5. Choose one to accomplish in the next 3 months.
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15. Share Your Intention
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16. Plan to Support Each Other
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17. Reports & Feedback
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18. Contact Me -
email: diana@futureworksconsulting.com
twitter: @FutureWks or @DianaOfPortland
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dianalarsenagileswd
Website & Blog: http://futureworksconsulting.com /blog
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