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Retrospective essentials
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What is a retrospective
A retrospective is a joint effort by thewhole project team to make continuous
improvement within the LEAN journey.
It helps the team to look back at the last
iteration and have the team insight.
The team members will answer
essentially the three questions below What went well
What can be improved
What are the impediments/obstacles
Team will Identify three main topics they
want to improve in next Sprint.
Retrospectives takes ½ hour and 1 day
Can be structured into 5 sections (Cf .agenda on the right picture)
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Setting the stage
Setting working rules, Expectations, goal
Establish a set of behavior that willsupport the team in having productive
discussions.
Establish that team members are
responsible for monitoring their
interactions.
Provide suggestions for day-to-day
working agreements if the team doesnµt
already have them
Don¶t forget to ask the team members: What are your expectations from this
retrospective
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Gather Data - with post-it
oderator distributes post-its to each
team members
Each team members gives his/her
feedback on Post-its
Different post-it color can be used to
answer the three questions
What went well
What can be improved
What are the impediments/obstacles
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Generate Insights ² make clusters
oderator groups similar feedback in
clusters on the Glad Flip chart
Sad flipchart are topics which make
team members sad but is not that
urgent
Mad flip chart are topics which needto be addressed
Each team member sticks his/her post-it
on the flip-chart
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Generate Insights ² with voting points
Once each team member has stickedhis/her ³Sad´ post-it on the flip-chart
Moderator groups similar feedback in
clusters on the Glad Flip chart
Moderator according to the number of
clusters give a certain number of points,
here 5 points to put on any post-its
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Activities to Decide What to Do
Action Planning (³brainstorm andprioritize´):
Have everybody on the team generate
suggestions f or actions individually (in the
f ormat above)
Then build pairs, discussing their
actions, prioritizing and reducing to e.g.
f our
Then build groups of 4 who discuss the
actions f rom the pairs, prioritizing and
reducing the set even f urther
Repeat, until whole group discusses the
remaining action items that turned out to
be the most important ones
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Return on Time Invested (ROTI)
At the end of the retrospective
gauge the eff ectiveness of the session
f rom the team members¶ perspectives.
At the end of the retrospective, ask
team members to give f eedback on
whether they spent their time well.
Time needed: 10 min
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Thank you
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