Course Summary
Retrospectve. Reflections. Lessons Learned. Post-Mortem. Post-Partum. A rose by any other name will still prick your finger if you're not careful. In this hands-on workshop you will learn and practice techniques to boost the effectiveness of your retrospectives. This hands-on workshop is based on first hand experience of how to facillitate Agile & Scrum retrospectives and more importantly, how NOT to do it.
PDUs: 7 Category 4.
Duration
1 day.
Objectives
At the end of this workshop you will be able to:
- Design iteration and project retrospectives
- Faciliate retrospectives effectively
- Uncover and reinforce team strengths
- Address people issues as well as technological
- Uncover unspoken impediments and get them removed without waiting for the end of the project
- Scale the retrospective for Scrum of Scrums and programs
- And most importantly, adapt these techniques to your unique culture
Audience
Agile Retrospectives is designed for the entire project team — analysts, architects, coaches, coders, designers, developers, product owners, program managers, programmers, project managers, and ScrumMasters.
Outline
The workshop will combine presentations, practical exercises, and learning games so that all participants have a chance to practice the facilitation techniques as they are introduced.
Introduction
- Retrospectives, Reflections, Lessons Learned, Post Partums, & Post Mortems
- The importance of Retrospectives to all projects
Preparing the Team
- Highlighting the benefits
- Co-developing the Goal
- Explaining the ground rules
- Helping the team prepare
Facilitating the Retrospective
- Reviewing the Goal
- Reminding the team of the ground rules
- Facillitating Braintstorming, not “blamestorming”
- Creating a “mind map”
- Refining the content
- Developing action plans
- Closing the Agile Retrospective
Inspect & Adapt: Patterns & Anti-Patterns
- Ensuring that everyone participates fully
- Dealing with personalities
- Dealing with the “elephant in the room”
- Driving to consensus
- What to do when the team is deadlocked
- Effective team decision making
- Techniques for facilitating insights
