Retrospective: The "First" Step Towards Agility

Bad News: the journey towards true agility in an organization can be a journey of 10,000 miles.

Good News: starting is as easy taking a single step

What is that step: The Retrospective

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1. Retrospective The first step towards agility
2. Scrum is Easy to understand 3 Roles 5 Events 3 Artifacts
3. Scrum is Easy to understand
4. Scrum is hard to do Quality Software Dedicated Professionals
5. What are we doing? “We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.” - Agile Manifesto “...[addressing] complex adaptive problems, while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value.” - Scrum Guide, July 2013
6. Why is it Hard? People
7. Why is it Hard? Processes
8. Why is it Hard? Tools
9. Starting it is easy “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” - Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
10. What are we starting?
11. Step 1: Start Improving Start regular and frequent times to inspect how things went regarding: • People • Relationships • Processes • Tools
12. Step 1: Start Improving Don’t let meeting end without: • Identifying and ordering major items that went well and potential improvements and, • Creating a plan for implementing improvements to the way the [team] does its work
13. How often? Not so often so as to impede progress. Let’s stop and retrospect now!!!
14. Who should attend? Who develops the [product] on your project? • Developers? • Designers? • Testers? • Technical writers?
15. Who should not attend? Who does not produce the [product] on your product? • CEO • Managers • Sales • Customer • Developers on other teams • Your mom
16. Ensure progress is made Really measure results, don’t guess!
17. Delivering = Trust Remember this guy from earlier?
18. Trust = Open Doors I need a product owner! I need a product ow ner! W e w ant m ore autonom y! W e w ant full-blow n Scrum !
19. Questions?
20. References • Agile Retrospectives - Esther Derby • Scrum Guide