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 Retrospectives Conne Pierluigi Pugliese ! Xo X Conne Xo X

Agenda • Retros vs. Continuous Improvement ! • Creativity and Strategy ! • Facilitator’s roles ! • Supporting change processes ! • Solution Focus ! • Metaphors ! ! Not on the agenda: ! • Games & activities ! • Larsen/Derby’s 5 Phases ! 2

Regular Retrospectives? ! 3

Retrospectives: why? ! 4

Retrospectives or Continuous 
 Improvement? " 5

Continuous Improvement? E fg ectiveness Time ! 6

Reality of CI How to accompany this? E fg ectiveness Time ! 7

Retros / Continuous Improvement? Sprint Retrospectives Plan Grasp Act Do Check ! 8

Creativity and Strategy " 9

How do you plan them? • Discuss with your neighbour ! • Report to the group ! 10

Retrospectives: - Creative ! - Strategic ! 11

Creativity ! 12

Principle 12 Or who else? Active or Or when else? passive? At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior Or what else? accordingly. Or who else? Maybe “it” just happens! ! 13

Creative Retrospectives • What else could you try? ! 14

Strategy: 
 Key differences • Difference that makes a difference ! • Change happens all the time ! 15

Strategy:The road 
 is the destination ! 16

Strategy: Causality is superstition! Wittgenstein TLP 5.1361: ! “Der Glaube an den Kausalnexus ist der Aberglaube” ! 17

The Causality Superstition ... ... Quality Team Quality Team ... Problems Morale Low Problems Morale Low ... ... Code does Code does not get not get cleaned cleaned ... ! 18

Strategy: Experiments / Complex Systems - Small ! - Safe-Fail (instead of Fail-Safe) ! 19

The Facilitator’s Role s " 21

What is a Retrospective Facilitator? ! 22

Facilitator’s Roles - I X is... Trainer I’ve done X Motivator Now try Y Mentor ! 23

Facilitator’s Roles - II ! n e e r G Blue? ! n e e r G Y e l l o w ! Intention? Mediator Y e l l o w ! Facilitator ! 24

Your typical roles in a Retrospective… • How do you choose? ! • How do you know what is the right role? ! • Discuss with your neighbour ! 25

Supporting Change Processes " 26

It’s a dance… ! 27

Action Items? Maybe, maybe not… ! 28

What does your team need? Maybe 
 Committed? one day… Towards! Obstacles But where? Away from? Oscillating Today ! 29

What else did your team need? • Discuss with the neighbour a situation where your attitude does not help the team ! • What else would you 
 do today? ! 30

Attitude: Solution Focus " 31

Solution Focused Retrospectives • Steve De Shazer, Insoo Kim Berg et al. ! • “All of the Facts belong only to the Problem, not to its Solution” 
 (Ludwig Wittgenstein) 
 Asking for Solutions is 
 more efficient than 
 digging in Problem analysis ! 32

Future 1 The Present The Future ! 33

Future 2: Solution Focus No need to know how it happens... The Future When we realise The Present about the future ! 34

Retrospectives 1. Open the Retrospective / “Set the stage” ! 2. Envision a solution ! 3. Find the differences ! 4. Define the steps needed 
 (and action items!) ! 5. Close the Retrospective Or: as a general approach to working Conne Xo X with people!

Try Future 2… • A presents a situation to “solve” ! • B asks Future 2 questions ! • At the signal, swap ! 36

Attitude: Metaphors " 37

Metaphors: The Team is like… ! 38

Metaphors • Find 2-3 Metaphors that might help your team in the current phase ! • Explain them to your neighbour ! • Discuss + and - ! 39

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