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Agile Retrospectives : Making Good Teams Great

eBook, English, 2006
Pragmatic Programmers, LLC, The, Raleigh, 2006
1 online resource (171 pages).
9781680503104, 1680503103
1027162657
Cover; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; 1. Helping Your Team Inspect and Adapt; Set the Stage; Gather Data; Generate Insights; Decide What to Do; Close the Retrospective; 2. A Retrospective Custom-Fit to Your Team; Learning About the History and Environment; Shaping the Goal for the Retrospective; Determining Duration; Structuring a Retrospective; Selecting Activities; 3. Leading Retrospectives; Tip 4. When to Offer Content Expertise; Managing Activities; Managing Group Dynamics; Managing Time; Managing You; Taking Your Skills to the Next Level. 4. Activities to Set the StageActivity: Check-In; Activity: Focus On/Focus Off; Activity: ESVP; Activity: Working Agreements; 5. Activities to Gather Data; Activity: Timeline; Activity: Triple Nickels; Activity: Color Code Dots; Activity: Mad Sad Glad; Activity: Locate Strengths; Activity: Satisfaction Histogram; Activity: Team Radar; Activity: Like to Like; 6. Activities to Generate Insights; Activity: Brainstorming/Filtering; Activity: Force Field Analysis; Activity: Five Whys; Activity: Fishbone; Activity: Patterns and Shifts; Activity: Prioritize with Dots. Activity: Report Out with SynthesisActivity: Identify Themes; Activity: Learning Matrix; 7. Activities to Decide What to Do; Activity: Retrospective Planning Game; Activity: SMART Goals; Activity: Circle of Questions; Activity: Short Subjects; 8. Activities to Close the Retrospective; Activity: +/Delta; Activity: Appreciations; Activity: Temperature Reading; Activity: Helped, Hindered, Hypothesis; Activity: Return on Time Invested (ROTI); 9. Releases and Project Retrospectives; Preparing for Release and Project Retrospectives; Including Cross-Organizational Perspectives. Leading Release and Project RetrospectivesA Retrospective at Every Ending; 10. Make It So; Provide Support; Share Responsibility for Making Changes; Supporting Larger Changes; A1. Facilitation Supplies; A2. Debriefing Activities; A3. Activities Quick Reference Matrix; A4. Resources for Learning Facilitation Skills; A5. Bibliography; Index