AGILE RETROSPECTIVE IDEAS HOW TO
AGILE RETROSPECTIVE IDEAS GENERATOR

Review a list of issues identified during past retros and dot vote to see which ones we’ll take in this time: To move it to a 10, ideas to change_.ħ wastes - gallery walk of each waste and where it manifests in our team. Perfection game - 1-10 (how much I have ideas to improve the session - 2 means I have ideas to make this 5x better). Genie in a bottle - everyone gets 3 wishes - 3 areas: yourself, the team, other teams Time lapse task board retro - take a pic of the task board every day and use the time-lapse walkthrough for the retroĪgile Cheerup (appreciations) - based on the Agile values - posits to appreciate team members on specific values Venn diagram of build the right thing, build the thing right, build it fast (show PO in a nutshell first?)

AGILE RETROSPECTIVE IDEAS HOW TO

Talk through the improvement items on everyone’s performance evals and figure out how to help each other out with those Team votes on MVP with some silly, fun prize (bobblehead!) Results (What’s in it for the team? ßàWhat’s in it for me?)ĭraw up on the board a sailboat with a sail up and and anchor downĮveryone puts posits up - posits around the sails are things that are helping us move along, posits around the anchor are things that are dragging us down Trust (Speak your mind ßà Not voicing your opinion)Ĭonflict (Constructive dialog ßàAvoid like the plague)Ĭommitment (Do what it takes to be successful ßà(Paying lip service, being passive aggressively compliant)Īccountability (Own your mistakes/focus on solutions not problems ßà Throw people under the bus/”it’s all me attitude”) Have each team member dot vote where they think the team lands on each continuum. The closer you are to their chair, the more you agree with themĬontinuums – Draw a few continuums up on the whiteboard. If someone runs out of things to say, they get up and someone else sits downĬonstellation: everyone else on the team stands behind the person they agree with most. Use Fishbowl technique then to put three people in seated in the middle of the room discussing/debating the Lean Coffee item. Use Lean Coffee to generate and vote on things that went well or didn't Rotate the person that plays a green card and judges the responses. Let those milestones spark ideas of things we should be doing differentlyĭraw the sprint - hand the team markers and see what happensĪpples to Apples for retros - use applicable green cards and have the team make their own red cards before playing (red cards are everything they can think of that happened during the sprint). Have people add postits of everything that happened on those days Put a timeline up of the sprint (or the class) - day by day Safety check - Good way to start off a retro with a new team and understand if they trust each other or not Posits go up to the board and then dot vote on what people want to change Speed Dating - great if you have a group of talkers - everyone gets to talk!ĥ min timebox to talk about what went well and what didn't - ideas go on a posits Tasty Cupcakes - great website for ideas and games

AGILE RETROSPECTIVE IDEAS GENERATOR

Retrospective random idea generator - based on the 5 stages of the Agile Retrospectives book If you were king (or czar or queen), what would you change on your team? Reverse Debate - have people debate the side of the issue that they’re not on What's the team you aspire to be? Creative? Fun? High performing? Diligent? Customer focused? Pick one, make it visible, regularly ask (at standups perhaps) if the decisions you're making are in line with that identity) Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand.Īction items - treat them like experiments! How long to run it? How will you measure it’s success?Ĭreate a team IDENTITY to get to outcomes that you always remind yourself of. Retrospective Prime Directive - a favorite way to kick off a Retro! Over the years, we've collected retrospective ideas - my challenge to myself and others has always been to never use the same retro facilitation technique twice! Changing it up gets people to think differently and that's what you need in a retro.

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