Retrospective

• Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great, by Esther Derby, Diana Larsen : [Monica] has lots of good exercise like MAD/SAD/GLAD, Timeline
• Linoit : [Monica] free online tool allow you to do a board with stickies, it automatically updates real time when the board is updated, which means you can start remote retrospective offline to collect data, and come together to discuss and generate actions
• Innovation Games : [Monica] interactive games like Speed Boat, Product Box
• Starfish (Keep Doing/More Of/Start Doing/Stop Doing/Less Of)
• Use pictures : [Monica] I made up this one, it’s especially good for teams with quiet members, or they are not comfortable to speak up yet.  Round 1 – each member pick one image to represent his/her experience of the last sprint, then they need to explain to the team why they pick the picture. Round 2 – each member pick one image to represent his/her vision of the next sprint, then they need to explain to the team why they pick the picture, and the facilitator should ask “what action would you take to get from the first picture to the 2nd”

Games

• An Exercise in Flow: The Dice Game : For hesitants: Playful lesson on breaking big endeavors into smaller chunks
• Innovation Games : [Monica] many interactive games like Buy A Feature, Speed Boat, Product Box
• Penny Game : [Monica] help people to understand one piece flow

UX

• Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve fUser Experience by Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden

 Other Resources

• Article on cross-cultural project management

Sharing Information

Resources – this has info for books, events and others that may help you to find what you need.

Starting the meeting

We use Check In to begin meetings or anytime an individual or group. This simple check-in process allows us to be present in the meeting and engage in our conversation.

Check-in Steps

1. Speaker says “I feel [one or more of MAD, SAD, GLAD, AFRAID].” Speaker may provide a brief explanation. Or if others have already checked in, the speaker may say “I pass.” (See the Pass protocol.)

2. Speaker says “I’m in.”

3. Listeners respond, “Welcome.”

Check In (McCarthy Protocol)

• 6 turnouts
• Good discussions 

Retrospective – we played the Perfection Game for the retrospective

Trys for next time:

• Everyone bring a buddy next time
• Carry a topic “Working with old school leaders” forward
• Everyone take a story home and try it out until next time we meet (e.g. have a beer with your boss)