Plans for Retrospectives
Plans for Retrospectives
About the Book
Fanstastic plans and where to find them: Right here! 15 plans + 1 bonus plan for effective agile retrospectives – ready-to-facilitate and lasting 60-90 minutes
Retromat is a tool for experienced facilitators. It gives you dozens of ideas but it's up to you to pick activities that form a cohesive whole. That's tricky for beginners. Enter "Plans for Retrospectives" with plans for all occasions: New team, complainy team, performing team – you name it. Enable effective change – starting now
About the Author
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Thomas helps workers to clean their ecosystem by straightening and tuning up their essential activities, eliminating accumulated work waste and rebuilding meaningful teams.
Table of Contents
- Hi there!
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The Basics
- What is a retrospective?
- Ground Rules
- What is the goal of retrospectives?
- Why do we vary activities?
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About this book
- Context
- Terminology and Icons
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Building Blocks
- Lean Coffee (#51)
- Dotvoting
- Gladiator Vote / Roman Vote
- Was that a decision?
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General Purpose Plans
- Learning Matrix
- Feelings
- I like, I wish
- For many people
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Newly-formed Teams
- Expectations
- Laundry Day
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New to Agile
- Agile Principles
- Story Time
- Support Ticket Overload
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Houston, we have a problem
- Bad vibes? Appreciation!
- Complaining – not taking responsibility
- Reluctant Participants
- Follow through & a new phase
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Houston, it’s a really big problem
- Company Map
- Writing the Unspeakable
- Time to say goodbye
- Planning a retrospective
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Inventing custom activities
- Bonus plan: A Christmas Retro
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Appendix
- My facilitation style
- Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development
- Notes
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