1. The Kama Sutra of Retrospectives

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4. Founder and speaker at agile.kh.ua

5. Speaker at misc. conferences: PM Zone, Agile Base Camp, QA Club, Agileee, etc.Cross-functional Project Manager with more than 5 years of experience managing distributed and multinational teamsboth for agile and complex industry regulated projects. Alexander has proven track record of successful on-time and on-budget project delivery from different business domains: accounting and finance controlling, healthcare informatics and medical devices, enterprise resource planning, transportation management and many more.

6. Problems?

7. Technique: Dot Vote

8. 6 Thinking Hats

10. Blue Hat – objectives for the session.

11. White Hat – generating facts from the last iteration.

12. Yellow Hat – focus on positive things.

13. Black Hat – focus on negative things.

14. Green Hat – ideas about improvement from the helicopter view.

15. Red Hat – emotive statements.

18. Define important areas of discussion

19. Draw the spider web on the white board

20. Distribute the pieces of paper to everyone to draw the same spider web and rate the areas

21. Gather papers and accumulate the results from everyone

22. Discuss each area

25. Gather information (group brainstorm or individual post-it notes):

26. Successes

27. Strength

28. Positive events

29. Group the post-its or facts

32. Draw all the issues on the whiteboard

33. Ask the team to group the issues

34. Generate actions to solve problems (effective when working in pairs and then escalating the results to the group)

37. Long-term goal: e.g. have test automation on acceptance-test level

38. Now-Action: e.g. Vasya will automate one test using Selenium

39. Objectives, Activities, Deliveries

42. Gather information.

45. Set the timer and give the team five minutes to list all the supporting/driving factors for the topic

46. Identify top drivers

47. List all the inhibiting/restraining factors for the topic.

48. Identify top restrains

49. Try to find relations between drivers and restrains factors

50. Generate action plan

53. 5 minutes to discuss each topic

54. 2-3 minutes to get summary

57. In this sprint, what things happened that were unusual?

58. In this sprint, what things did we do well?

59. In this sprint, what did we do that we should avoid doing in the future?

60. The questions will be distributed at random to team members.

62. Actions: Same/More/Less

63. Facts: Plus/Minus/Interesting

64. Process: Works Well/Needs Improvement MAX UPGRADE NEEDS TO BE UPGRADED

65. Changes: Plus/Delta

66. Who? How? When? How to verify?

67. Retrospective of Retrospectives

68. Self-Retrospective

69. Decision Log http://bit.ly/KamaSutra_Self

70. Distributed Retrospectives Separate individual vs. joint improvements Individual meeting before joint Offline part: use surveys More time to check in Use wiki to store results!

71. References Retrospective Plans http://bit.ly/KamaSutra_Plans Lateral Thinking http://bit.ly/KamaSutra_DeBono Self Retrospective http://bit.ly/KamaSutra_Self

72. Let’s retrospect this presentation…