The Growing Agile monthly retrospective
Every month we have a company retrospective for at least 90 minutes. In 3 years it has proven to be of huge value. Every month we get on the same page with our values, what we are doing, what we want...
View ArticleOne week sprint, 45 minute Retrospective plan
We are currently helping out at a client, and I found myself in the ScrumMaster role It’s been a while! They run one week sprints and their teams are 1 or 2 people and they change every month or so....
View ArticleOne Page Monthly Plan Template
How often do you get to the end of the week or month at work and wonder what you have achieved? Day to day reactive work can easily eat away all your time. The best way to counter-act this is to have a...
View ArticleMonthly Retrospective Plan
We hold a retrospective each month, to see how we are doing. We started with the standard retrospective template, but over time we’ve added some of our own components. Here’s an idea of what it looks...
View ArticleFinal retrospective for a team
Usually a retrospective is to look at the past and then think of a way to improve your team’s process going forward. But what if this is your team’s last sprint together? Do you have a retrospective?...
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ESVP Retrospective Checkin Activity
When coaching new ScrumMasters we often get asked what people should do if teams don’t want to come to meetings like the retrospective, or standups. Our answer is usually to ask if participants are...
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Treasure Hunt Retrospective
Just before our last month end retro, Sam needed to leave the office. I decided to surprise her by planning a treasure hunt retro for when she returned. I wanted to do something a little fun and...
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Guest Post: Lego Retrospective
This blog post is by Jay-Allen Morris, a Scrum Master in the local South African community. Thank-you so much for your awesome retrospective idea Jay-Allen! Linked...
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Full Time Scrum Master experiment part 4 – Retrospectives!
Here I was, full time scrum mastering! There was time to plan mindful retrospectives targeted on what the team needed, it was total bliss. I’d been learning so much and this was an obvious way to put...
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Retrospective plan for a new scrum team
We feel it is important for teams new to Scrum to get value from their retrospectives right from the beginning. With new teams we usually facilitate the first retrospective with the ScrumMasters...
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