“Life can only be understood backwards, but it
must be lived forwards”
Kierkegaard
Rui Barreira
Senior Project Manager | Agile Coach @
Critical Software
Co-Founder @ Lean Coffee Portugal
Project Advisor @ porto.data
pt.linkedin.com/in/ruimbarreira/
rui.m.barreira@gmail.com
@ruimbarreira
www.leancoffeeportugal.com
Agile Retrospectives
Lessons Learned
What else?
Different Names
Different Contexts
Same Objective!
Its all about VALUE & Continuous Improvement!
Everyone must fill safe to participate
Inspect and Adapt
Things to repeat
Learn, ditch, adapt
Risky stuff
Improve, Improve, Improve
Plan
What is the context surrounding the
session?
What is the goal for this session?
How long will the session be?
Where will we hold the session?
What’s the basic structure?
Set the stage
Help the people to focus on the session.
Help them express what they want from the session.
Help them set aside blaming & judgement
Check-In
• In one or two words, what is happening for you right
now?
• In a word or two, what are your hopes for the
retrospective?
Ask a question that
everyone can answer
with a word or short
phrase
• You may thank each person (be sure to thank every
person if you do). Refrain from offering evaluative
comments such as “good” or “wonderful”
Go around the room
listening to each
person’s answer
Focus On / Focus Off
Draw attention to
the Focus On/Focus
Off poster
Form small groups,
with no more than
four people per
group
Ask each group to
discuss what their
two words mean
and what
What behaviors
they represent.
Each group reports
on their discussion
to the whole team.
Ask people whether
they are willing to
stay in the left
column
Source: Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
Take the Photo
Help the team gauge on a variety of measures
Help team members recall their experiences
during the iteration
Team Radar
Introduce the
activity
Team member
draws a dot in the
graph.
Discuss about how
the factors affect
the work
Save the
completed flip
chart graph.
Run the activity
again two or three
iterations later
Source: Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
Brainstorm
Generate a large number of ideas and filter them against a
defined set of criteria.
Discover underlying conditions that contribute to an issue
Help team members find what’s significant in their data.
Learning Matrix
Source: Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
Five Whys
One person asks the
other(s) why an event
or problem occurred.
In response to the
answer, the questioner
asks why that
happened.
Record the responses
that come out of the
fourth or fifth ‘Why?’
Decide over options
Retrospective Planning Game
Form pairs to generate
ideas
Write them on post-its and
set them on the wall
Order them
Source: Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
SMART Goals
Get the actions the team
suggests
Pass them through the
SMART filter
Reframe the actions
Source: Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
Close the Retrospective
Appreciations
Now, Go Home, do your RESTROSPECTIVES!
and
Thank you very much for your attention


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