Agile retrospectives - why, what and how
- 1. Agile retrospectives: Why, What and How Dmitriy Viktorov AgileDays’10, St.Petersburg, September 17th 2010 Protecting the irreplaceable | f-secure.com
- 2. Postmortems in pre-Agile days 2 21 September,
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- 4. When 4
- 5. How to make retrospective successful 5
- 6. Preparation • Place • Participants • Agenda / goals • Toolbox 6
- 7. Conducting the retrospective • Check in (warm-up) • Collecting feedback • Facilitation techniques • Lead people, time, yourself 7
- 8. Check-in & Warm-up • Get participants in the right mood • Code of conduct • Make agenda and goals visible • Share context, display data, timeline 8
- 9. Project timeline (example) Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Beta 1 Beta 2 RC1 RC2 RTM • 2 more sprints added • Milestones: • Beta 1 – the end of November, • Beta 2 – the end of December, • RC1 – the end of January, • RC2 – the end of February, • RTM – the mid/end of March 9
- 10. Sprint statistics (example) Sprint PBL items Capacity Work effort # Total Done Undone SWE+QE Total Done Undone S1 17 10 7 97.9 99 52 47 S2 17 13 4 94 90 60 30 S3 21 20 1 89.3 91 83 8 S4 16 14 2 123.2 122 85 37 S5 20 14 6 110.2 112 64 48 S6 17 10 7 91.2 97 60 37 S7 21 13 8 116.6 114 68 46 S8 10 7 3 80.5 57 38 19 • Statistics based on PBL data 10
- 11. Bug trend report (example) 11
- 12. How to gather feedback • Classic Scrum • Starfish • Keep, Drop, Fix, Try • 3L’s (4L’s) • Checklist 12
- 13. Assessment form (example) Sprint 2 Sprint 7 13
- 14. Leading the retrospective • Time • Start and finish on time • Timebox activities • Have breaks • People • Personalities (quiet, overbeating, passive, aggressive) • Introverts vs. extroverts • You • Facilitator vs. team member • Let others talk 14
- 15. Analyze feedback • Group similar items • Separate team and company level items • Root cause analysis • Select top 3/5/10 items to work on • Discuss actions, owners and schedule 15
- 16. Group and separate items 16
- 17. Group and separate items Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 Group 6 17
- 18. Group and separate items TEAM COMPANY Group 1 Group 3 Group 2 Group 4 Group 6 Group 5 18
- 19. Root cause analysis • Interview/questions • 5 Why’s • Fishbone 19
- 20. Decide what, who and when • Identify things that make difference • Owner is not always the one who will do it • Start with near-term improvements • Get support for long-term improvements 20
- 21. Closing the retrospective • End in positive way • Appreciation • Celebrate (cake, champagne, fireworks) 21
- 22. Follow up • Share retrospective results • Make comments and actions visible • Add user stories, tasks to sprint/product backlog • Check the status regularly • Review on next retrospective 22
- 23. Smells • Reporting to management • Offline retrospective (by email) • Only a few participants • Everybody is happy • Blame game • Nobody talks about elephant • Looking for silver bullets • Retrospective in the team room • Too short retrospective meeting • Facilitator doesn’t facilitate 24