Retrospective Darts is a great way to visualize the sprint. Most people are familiar with darts so it is easy for team members to grasp and they enjoy playing it.
The Battle of the Retrospectives
This exercise is about practicing various ways for conducting retrospectives. Although it is a good starting point to the diverse world of retrospectives, it could be used also as an instrument to roughly assess and eventually select the retrospective format which best suits participants’ needs and individual preferences.
The Rocket Retrospective
The Rocket retrospective is a 15 minutes (strictly timeboxed) retrospective which defines concrete follow-up actions for each of its participants. Being short, engaging and result-oriented it boost up the self-actualizing/self-discovering capabilities of the team to a new level within an affordable cost (much lower than alternative retrospectives as the Start-stop-continue retrospective, Starfish retrospective, Speed boat retrospective, Timeline retrospective, etc.). Also it effectively addresses the Parkinson’s…
The Sandwich Retrospective
This exercise can be used as a retrospective technique (in addition to other popular techniques as the Start-stop-continue retrospective, Starfish retrospective, Speed boat retrospective, etc.). I called it the Sandwich retrospective as it covers three different “slices of ingredients” which I believe are essential for self-reflection. These (in “sandwich terms”) are: The issues (the “hunger”) we face in our organization, project, release, sprint, etc. (the…
Values-Driven Retrospective
Objectives To continuously improve your team and your work through value-driven Retrospectives to ensure the team remains value driven. It also serves as a highly visible reference to reflect on the team’s actions and commitments throughout the day. Dependencies You need to have defined values that the teams have committed to prior. We use the Agile values of Commitment, Openness, Focus, Respect, and Courage (See Scrumallance.org Code of Ethics) .…