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Retrospective script - Awesome & Deltas
The purpose of this, and every retrospective, is to help us to improve by coming up with a few concrete improvement actions that we can complete / test / do until the next retrospective. Small, concrete actions are preferred before large lofty goals that we don’t reach anytime soon. There will be another retrospective in a few weeks.
This is a basic and easy to run a retrospective. All other retrospectives are variants on this theme.
You will need a big piece of paper or a whiteboard and some post-its
The duration of this retrospective is about 45 minutes
Review (5 min)
- Read the previous improvment actions
- Did we do them?
- If no - why not?
- If yes - what happened?
- What should we think about writing new action items?
Generate data
- Get a A3-paper and table you comfortably can sit around
- Draw a mood diagram for the first two weeks
- Each of you draw their own lines while telling how you felt. For example: I was very confused the first two days, the AW cheered me up and from the second week I felt awesome.
- Spend max 1 / person
Generate insights
- Now create a big cross on the flipside of the A3.
- On the left side we will list all positive things
- On the left side we will list all the things that we could improve
- Under 10 minutes silence each of you write down things that should go in each column on sticky notes
- Write one thing per sticky!
- Write legible!
- Post them as you have written them - anywhere on the right side will due
- After the 10 mins is up - group the notes that belongs together
- You can do this silently if you want
- Discuss based of the generated insights, and the mood diagram, come up with max 2 action items that you can and will improve until the next Friday
- I rather you do small thing that you complete than big things that you start.
- Note down the actions and how you would know when they are completed on new stickies.
- Bring them to your mob station
Close retrospective (2 min)
- Thank everyone for participating
- Do a fist-of-five vote for how good the retrospective was
- Ask participants to write, if the want, a post-it on what would make improve their rating
- Bring the action items to your mob station