Having distributed
team members is always a challenge in
many aspects in a scrum team. One of the challenges is performing a meaningful
effective and with good results retrospective.
Using online techniques is one of the ways we can achieve that. This
blog post will provide an example of an exercise performed few weeks ago with
distributed scrum team.
This exercise
executes Ilio
Krumins-Beens technique in his article Facilitating
Retrospectives with Remote Attendees using Google Drawing in 5 Easy Steps ,
but not only
** This specific scrum team was created for a
specific one time sprint, in this case they will not continue together as a
team , so the goal of the retrospective exercise was to gather insights and
suggestions to be used further down the road when forming the next gen of scrum teams.
First up :
Google
drawing templates for the session is created and shared in advanced with
the team members.
Using google
drawing allows all team members to work on a shared board , while view
online results and outcomes and at the same time benefit from a good visibility
and a relevant discussion over current retrospective events.
Each team member is
seated by his own PC, using headphones and proper online communication.
1. Create virtual retro google
template with sprint timeline and mood icons.
2. "Create virtual retro
board and pre-create blank stickies and voting chips for each participant
in advance of meeting. Alternatively, you can open the Remote Retrospective Template* in Google (you'll need
to 'Make a Copy' to be able to edit it). "
Set the stage : Est. 10 min
Introduce
retrospective technique and goal.
Next : Use the
virtual retro google template with sprint timeline and mood icons.
*This short exercise
goal is to give a brief view to all participants over the overall mood of the
sprint , acting as a teaser to the next exercise of collecting relevant
information related to it.
The wonderful thing
with this exercise is the fact that it is being done anonymously and yet we get
good feeling over team members mood and view over the sprint .
Ask the team member
to take 3 min and to silently place icons through the sprint timeline
reflecting their mood during the spring.
Each team member
should also glade the total score of sprint mood.
- As a coach Reflect what we see.
- Ask for short response if there are any thoughts.
Gather data E2E:
Set Up - Est.
10 Min
Use the virtual retro board . Explain How to Use
The Board and ask each team member to create
his own create space on the
board.
"If this is the
first time your participants are using Google Drawing, take a few minutes to
show them the basics. Although the tool is very intuitive, you will lower
anxiety by showing how easy it is to: drag a shape > double-click to
edit > enter text."
I realized that team
members just love this boar. Each member creates his /hers own creative space
on the board , changing colors and adding pictures. This part was a really fun
part .
Step 2: Create and
Add Stickies reflecting each team member thought- Est. 10 Min
I time-box this part
of the retrospective to 10 minutes. Each person adds their thoughts (1
per stickie) to the his personal space Stickies .
Step 3: presenting
items and listening to the pain - Est. 40 Min
Each team member
presets shortly ( 1-5 min) his/her items and adds it to the 4 different areas
on the board for item.
*Make sure
,adding good things is also a must
**Because of the
nature of this current team sprint and the general mood chart results (unhappy
team mood for this sprint) it was highly
important to hear each and every team member thought instead of just performing
other silent less time consuming techniques for gathering huge amount of
data.
***You can also do
this exercise differently using
silent
grouping
While the discussion
progress group similar stickies raised
together.
This exercise
facilitation should be carefully handled , pointing out main pain/ gain issues
while team members presents this view .
*We were able to
identify the most painful issues while adding the insights to the board.
Optional : Step 4:
prioritize items - 10 min
Optional for this
exercise :After all items have been read, each person can assign 3 "voting
chips" to the groupings that they think are more important.
Take time to discuss
winning items.
*We didn’t take this
step, since we were able to identify the most painful issues while adding the
insights to the board.
Instead , we asked
team members to add suggestions for solutions
Step 5 : Suggestions
and identify actions - -Est. 10 Min - 30 Min
As a group, discuss
the groupings of items starting with the items that received the most
votes or with those identified during the session. Suggest
which activities the team wants to continue and what the team wants
to do differently. Identify a few action items that the team can commit
to in the upcoming iteration. In addition for further discussion , suggest ways
of improvement.
Reference:
Remote Retrospective
Board by Ilio Krumins-Beens &
Terrence McGovern is licensed under aCreative
Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work
at https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/17cyx7QZJLpMIoVHsdlAldXfgU-cPdIg9v_XlVhhtkZU/edit?usp=sharing.
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