About a month ago I purchased Innovation Games off of amazon… partly because I have a strong interest in facilitating interactive activities to learn and solve problems (which is what we do with retrospectives) and partly because I heard some subtle buzz about it. When I saw that another person on the retrospective mailing lists [...]
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Retrospective Rules
February 28th, 2010
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I’m gearing up to put together a retrospective for my team at my current client site, and I’ve been both thinking about and reading over notes from previous retrospectives I’ve either sat in or facilitated. Looking over a lot of these notes, especially from the worst ones, I’ve noticed an emerging pattern of behavior that [...]
Evolving Retrospectives: Applying Themes
September 26th, 2008
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This week I got to have someone from another team who has been taking part in our “retrospective facilitators” group facilitate my team’s retrospective. He had started out using the framework from the Agile Retrospectives book and with a little help from me, but this week I got to see how he had evolved the [...]
Retrospective Patterns
September 4th, 2008
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Tonight I have more stories and thoughts to share from the trenches of facilitating Agile Retrospectives. As we’ve continued a few more iterations of participating in better organized retrospectives, I’ve noticed that there are a few interesting patterns that have emerged that a lot of retrospectives seem to follow. I’ll kind of avoid the Wrap [...]
Adventures in Agile Retrospectives
August 15th, 2008
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Lately we’ve been trying to improve our retrospective format, moving away from the as hoc “More Of, Same Of, Less Of” and into something more engaging and useful. For this goal, I’ve been applying the pattern outlined in the excellent Agile Retrospectives book: Set The Stage Gather Data Generate Insights Decide What To Do Wrap [...]
