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Star Wars Retrospective: Scrum Team Values COVID-19 style
This retrospective has been adapted for complete virtual/ remote use since most of the world is still working from home in May 2020. This is a great Retrospective to help your team grow stronger as a team, remind them what the Scrum values are; openness, respect,...
Cinco de Mayo Openness Retrospective COVID-19 style
I made a few adjustments to this Retrospective since this year most of the world is still in work from home mode. This one is completely remote/virtual friendly. When your team needs to be reminded that they are part of a bigger picture than just themselves or when...
Hidden Figures – Empiricism Retrospective
WHO: Does your team resist measuring things, or do they only want to share the good and hide the rest? Do they complain about having to measure anything or think that if they do they will loose sight of customer needs, pain points, the product and/or get lost in all...
Christmas Retrospective: Year End Review and Goal Setting
This Retrospective is perfect for teams just starting out and those experienced with Agile/ Scrum as well as everyone in between. It is a great time to share some Christmas/Holiday themed snacks (here is a great board of ideas), and take stock of the past year while...
How to get a Scrum Master job with no experience
I probably see this question asked more than any other on all of the Scrum Master groups that I am in and it isn't a sentence or two answer so I thought I'd weigh in here and link to it. So you have a PSM or CSM certificate - congratulations! But, now you wonder how...
Big Bang Theory Retrospective: Helping your team create a Working Agreement
Have you ever considered how Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory could help your team to create a working agreement? Particularly one that is thorough but not too detailed? Does your team even have a working agreement? If yes, have they taken a few minutes in the last...
Scrum Success Story: Fail Fast, Learn Faster, Innovate!
One of the many benefits of Agile is the concept "fail fast, learn faster, Innovate". There are two things I particularly like about it. Did you ever have a teacher that said, "there is no such thing as a stupid question"? I did, and I tend to agree, even though I do...
Cinco de Mayo Retrospective: Openness, Ripple Effects, and Impossible Odds
Help your team understand openness, identify ripple effects and their effects, and impossible odds.
Fast & Furious Retrospective: Assumptions
This retrospective was created to use when you notice your team working off of assumptions particularly with their attitudes and impacting their decisions. It is helpful during buy-outs, mergers, company structure changes, or any time lots of rumors and speculation...
Star Wars Retrospective: Scrum Team Values
This is a great Retrospective to help your team grow stronger as a team, remind them what the Scrum values are; openness, respect, commitment, focus, and courage, and help the team see those scrum team values in practice in the world around them, with the end goal...
How to create a simple Monthly Meal Planner and Food Log in one, that really works!
I've seen many a meal plan that consists of a month of meals all mapped out in advance, which is way too waterfall for me! By that I mean it is planned out in too much detail, too far in advance to accurately plan. Example, say I'm supposed to make chili next Tuesday...
Hunger Games Retrospective: Inspecting Independence and Interdependence
This retrospective is especially helpful when you notice the following things happening with your team; the team blames the business for their challenges teammates blame other teammates for their individual challenges particularly between Developers and QA. the team's...
Winnie the Pooh Retrospective: Inspecting perspective
Help your team discuss perspective in this delightful and productive Winnie the Pooh Retrospective
How to save time with Agile.
Do you have any tasks that you do, especially repeatedly, that eat up too much of your time? Of course you do, who doesn't? 😉 One of the principles of Agile is Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done. Did you catch that? It is an art, a talent...
Hobbit/LOTR Retrospective: The adventure of Scrum
In The Hobbit, September 22nd is Bilbo and Frodo’s birthday, also known as Hobbit Day. In honor of Hobbit Day I created a retro for the team to inspect and adapt on how the adventure of Scrum is going Hobbit/LOTR style. We started off with a few pictures that each...
Future Publications for the next few years and then some after that
Retrospectives: the Collection
- Each retrospective has the 5 stages included as a cohesive unit, building upon the last stage and takes into consideration that many are introverts and/or remote.
- Every retrospective includes step-by-step instructions to facilitate and powerful questions to ask so your team gets the most value out of them.
- Save valuable time using these targeted retrospectives to help your team learn the principles of Agile and Scrum Team Values.
- Includes many themed retrospectives created for Holidays or inspired by popular books, TV shows, video games, and movies.
- Each targeted retrospective is searchable by learning objective as well as team/organizational challenge that the retrospective is designed to help overcome.
- Every retrospective is team tested, approved, and successful!
Online Library coming soon
- Access to over 5 years of targeted Retrospectives for every team need.
- All Retrospectives are searchable by learning objective and team/org challenge
- Easy to follow step-by-step guide for each Retrospective.