May The 4th (Force) Be With You Retrospective

This is an entire retrospective based on Star Wars May the 4th (force be with you). It includes Goal, Focus, Check-In, Energizer, Gather Info, Analyze, and Create Action Items, and Close-Out. It also includes a special snack section and is a creative and productive way for the team to incorporate their thoughts about the last sprint, team building, and even their knowledge about Agile and Scrum into a fun holiday of sorts.This is an entire retrospective based on Star Wars May the 4th (force be with you). It includes Goal, Focus, Check-In, Energizer, Gather Info, Analyze, and Create Action Items, and Close-Out. It also includes a special snack section and is a creative and productive way for the team to incorporate their thoughts about the last sprint, team building, and even their knowledge about Agile and Scrum into a fun holiday of sorts.This is an entire retrospective based on Star Wars May the 4th (force be with you). It includes Goal, Focus, Check-In, Energizer, Gather Info, Analyze, and Create Action Items, and Close-Out. It also includes a special snack section and is a creative and productive way for the team to incorporate their thoughts about the last sprint, team building, and even their knowledge about Agile and Scrum into a fun holiday of sorts.This is an entire retrospective based on Star Wars May the 4th (force be with you). It includes Goal, Focus, Check-In, Energizer, Gather Info, Analyze, and Create Action Items, and Close-Out. It also includes a special snack section and is a creative and productive way for the team to incorporate their thoughts about the last sprint, team building, and even their knowledge about Agile and Scrum into a fun holiday of sorts.This is an entire retrospective based on Star Wars May the 4th (force be with you). It includes Goal, Focus, Check-In, Energizer, Gather Info, Analyze, and Create Action Items, and Close-Out. It also includes a special snack section and is a creative and productive way for the team to incorporate their thoughts about the last sprint, team building, and even their knowledge about Agile and Scrum into a fun holiday of sorts.

Company Profile

Timing: it’s up to you! Instructions: First and most important, it’s about working with people who, even though they may not share the agile mindset and the fundamental principles of what we are trying to promote, they do have the courage and confidence to help us realize when we have obviously departed from our own path. In “Joy at Work”, I came across another tool I found extremely…

The Lean-STAR Game

Timing: 15 minutes Overview: This is a short game to explain why WIP is bad. It has so many variants, one of which is the lean simulation game with paper airplanes by Jeff Patton. Instead of building airplanes, we connect five dots of a star. Resources: Print 10 copies per team from this Star-Connect pdf file. Steps: Form teams of 5’s. Each team member is responsible to connect…

Cards Against Agility

Cards Against Agility is based on the game Cards Against Humanity, where the former was developed at the Play 4 Agile event in Germany in February 2017. Purpose: either to develop awareness or poke fun at Agile practices, as the questions and answers can be rather irreverent. As the original game states: “Cards Against Humanity is a party game for horrible people. Unlike most of…

Simplicity in LEGO (technical practices)

Timing: 10-15 minutes Overview: This is the initial exercise in a collection of LEGO games related to the agile technical practices. This particular exercise is generally done prior to any of the others as it’s foundational for all the Agile technical practices. These exercises are designed to be approachable to everyone, not just to people who write code. They’ve been run with management and business…