The Reality Check – Remote Retrospectives
Last week I was privileged to co-host a round table discussion with Jonathan Howell on remote retrospectives as part of his ‘Reality Check’ series of discussion events, hosted by Emma Alston of Transition Partners. ‘Reality Check’ round table discussions focus on three questions:- What are we trying to achieve? What is happening on the ground? […]
The Wheels on the Bus Retrospective
Last week I walked into the office to be told that a members of my team – I shall call him Scott*, because that is his name – had not had a very enjoyable journey into work. Scott gets the bus into work and on this particular morning he had been joined by large number […]
New Year Goals (not resolutions)
2020 is here, and with the arrival of the new year many people will set out with the best of intentions and look to set themselves one or more New Year’s resolutions. Over the last few weeks of 2019 my wife asked me (on more than one occasion) what my New Year’s resolution was going […]
10-Pin Bowling Retrospective
This blog post was originally published on the Scrum Alliance website on 8th March 2016. The Scrum Guide states, “The Sprint Retrospective is an opportunity for the Scrum Team to inspect itself and create a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next Sprint.” There are a number of resources available (books and websites) […]
Improving processes with Lego
Looking back at my first two years as a Scrum Master, my Sprint Retrospectives were dull, boring and always followed the same format. This was a format that I had been introduced to during my time as a Product Owner, where the Scrum Master would ask the Development Team to write on post-it notes the […]