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A good Sprint retrospective activities sequence

Paulo Caroli

27 May 2014 | FunRetro

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I have just facilitated a Scrum team String retrospective. The following activities sequence worked really well. The team had about 15 participants geographically distributed. We did use Google Drawing as the shared distributed canvas. The retrospective took 50 minutes, with great effective prioritized conversations, shared understanding for everyone’s opinions and a few action items.

Below is the agenda (with activities selected):

  1. Context: This is a Sprint (bi-weekly) retrospective for the ABC team
  2. Prime Directive:  ‘Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job he or she could, given what was known at the time, his or her skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand.’ (Project Retrospectives, Kerth)
  3. Check-in: the happiness radar
  4. Main Course: Open the box
  5. Filtering: Plus, Minus Voting
  6. Check-out: Who-What-When

 

Paulo Caroli

Paulo Caroli is an author, speaker, and consultant specializing in agile transformations, Lean Inception, and OKRs. With over 30 years of experience—including nearly a decade in Silicon Valley and 18 years at ThoughtWorks—he has helped organizations transition from project to product and from strategy to execution. Creator of the Lean Inception methodology and author of bestselling books like Lean Inception and Team OKR, Paulo is dedicated to empowering teams to align, validate, and deliver real business value.
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