As a Scrum Master, you are accountable for the Scrum Team’s effectiveness. Sprint Retrospective is your number one tool for achieving that. Sprint Retrospective is an ultimate opportunity for the Scrum Team to discuss what went well during the Sprint, what problems it encountered, and how those problems were (or were not) solved. If facilitated well, the team would leave the event with 2-3 actionable items on how to make the improvements.
Please join us for a 2.5 hour hands-on mini-workshop to learn how to facilitate 5 steps Sprint Retrospective, how to avoid “groundhog day retrospectives”, and how to utilize retromat.org web site to make it fun and avoid boredom. Practice Sprint Retrospective facilitation using www.retromat.org in small groups and get some further insights from the Certified Agile Coaches and Trainers.
Scrum Masters
Product Owners
Developers
- How to be of service to your Scrum Team for facilitating effective Sprint Retrospective
- Event objectives, roles and timing
- Facilitation techniques to ensure productive conversations
- How to utilize www.retromat.org
- Indicators of an effective Sprint Retrospective
- Grasp the event flow, inputs, and outputs
- 5 steps for facilitating a Sprint Retrospective
- Some typical formats for Sprint Retrospective facilitation
- How to utilize www.retromat.org for generating different formats for each of the 5 steps to avoid boredom
- Avoid possible anti-patterns
- Practice facilitation in small groups
15 Minutes:
Check-in and make connections
15 Minutes:
Sprint Review: Objectives, timing and roles
15 Minutes:
Exercise 1: Event inputs and Outcome. Debrief
10 Minutes
5 steps to holding an effective Sprint Retrospective
10 Minutes:
How to use www.retromat.org for generating a template for each of 5 steps
20 Minutes:
Exercise 2: Simulation & Debrief
20 Minutes:
Typical anti-patterns and how they affect the teams.
20 Minutes:
Exercise 3: What anti-patterns do you observe with your team’s Sprint Review? Debrief
15 Minutes:
What are 1-2 new things that you have learned today that you can take back to your team Sprint Review to improve it?
10 Minutes:
Q&A, Celebration and Wrap-up
2.5 Hours
