![]() I can tell you from experience that, when you have read this book, you will be much more confident when planning and hosting a Retrospective session. They will also help you to avoid that your team gets bored by doing the same activities over and over again. These activities will help you to keep your Retrospective meeting diversified. In addition the book also contains a list of possible activities for each phase. They walk you through a virtual Retrospective meeting with a virtual team and give you a lot useful insights with many example situations you might face. It contains a tremendous amount of useful experience provided by the experts Esther and Diana. As menioned at the beginning of the post, I highly recommend the book Agile Retrospectives – Making Good Teams Great. And the suggestions in each section should help you to avoid some common pitfalls.īut there is a lot more to learn, when you want to become better in leading a Retrospective meeting. The tips I have been describing for each phase should help you to become a better Scrum Master. Keeping these phases in your mind while planning your next Retrospective will give you an organized way of approaching and structuring the session. Ok, now I have walked you through the five phases of a Scrum Retrospective. Therefore your final step is to thank everyone again for their time and their effort and close the meeting. Step 3: Thank Everyone and Let Them GoĪt this point you can end the Retrospective and let the team go back to their work place and continue with their tasks. ![]() At the end of this step the participants are mostly in a good mood and that´s exaclty how you want the people to leave the room. In my experience this bonds the team closer together and adds to the team pride. By letting everyone explain their feelings about the meeting you make the results even more important for the team. With these activities you generally put the team in a spot to celebrate the results of the retrospective. Then everyone, one after another, puts the stickies on the board explaining what they mean. This wayĪnother option is to ask everyone to write down on a sticky note the one thing they like and one thing they would change about the Retrospective. Then you give the word to each participant in the group. There are again a couple of different formats of how you can do this.įor instance, you can ask everyone to name one thing what they learned in this Retrospective. Here you would like to have an input from all participants what they liked about the Retrospective and what could be improved. Step 2: Perform a Retrospective of the Retrospective Session And I use this recap as the introduction for the next step. I keep this very short, like two or three sentences. You want to recap the whole meeting in just a few sentences and remind everyone what problem we have tackled, how we are going to solve it and what we achieved in this meeting. Perform a Retrospective of the Retrospective session.The goal of this last phase is to sum up the results of our Retrospective and generally leave a good feeling behind for the participants of the meeting.Įveryone should leave the room with the feeling that we achieved something useful and that the meeting was worth it. Now, let’s finish off our Retrospective with the last phase. Based on that we have created action items to improve our process. In the previous four phases we have decided what we are going to do about the problems we identified earlier. ![]() I use this five-step-approach as a guideline in each Retrospective meeting, which I lead as a Scrum Master. These five stages are presented in the book Agile Retrospectives – Making Good Teams Great by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen. If you haven´t read the previous posts in this series you can start with Phase 1 -Setting the stage. In this post I cover Phase 5- Close the Retrospective. This is the fifth and last post of my blog post series about the five phases of a Scrum Retrospective.
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