Agile Chalk Talk: Retrospecting Your Iterations

I’m doing some brief research about how to run our second retrospective. Here’s Jean Tabaka of Rally Software giving a short talk about running them:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20YOGsb4pRE?fs=1&feature=oembed&w=459&h=344\]

Quick notes:

• Retrospectives are about the team and not so much about the project.
• Processes:
  • Plusses and deltas: What things went well? (+) What are things that didn’t go well? (delta)
  • Wind and anchors. Similar, viewing the iteration as a journey.
  • ORID: Objective, reflective, interpretive, decisional.
  • 3 H’s: Helped, hindered, hypothesis.
• Consider making an implementation backlog
• Appreciations and apologies: a time of reflection at the end.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012