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Retrospectives A bit of ceremony can be useful Aino V. Corry, [email protected] GOTO Night Amsterdam May 14. 2013

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Retrospectives

A bit of ceremony can be useful

Aino V. Corry, [email protected] GOTO Night Amsterdam May 14. 2013

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Take away message

If you leave out a step in your retrospective, you will make problems emerge, that you -

do not understand fully nor find solutions to

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What is a retrospective A chance to reflect and learn

coming downstairs now,

bump, bump, bump, bump,

on the back of his head,

behind Christopher Robin. It

is, as far as he knows, the

only way of coming

downstairs, but sometimes he

feels that there is another way,

if only he could stop

bumping for a moment

and think of it.

A. A. Milne

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Norm Kerths Prime Directive Regardless of what we discover, we

must understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job he or she could, given what was known at the time, his or her skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand.

Norm

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Stages and activities Set the Stage – getting ready

Closing the retrospective –summary

Decide what to do - the future

Generate insights - now

Gather Data – the past

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Now to something completely different....

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* Dating design patterns *

How many times, have you thought: 'Boy, I sure wish there was an easier way to pick up women, like published API with code samples?' What would you say if such documentation was not only available, but succinctly put into 22 design patterns and given formal descriptions just like the ones in your GoF book?

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Surprise Statefulness Problem You want to convince the target female that you are a

package of extremely desirable resources and differentiate yourself from other dating service providers

Forces Women view men as somewhat self-centered Women assign significant value to a man who takes the

trouble to make her private data persistent Solution Use optimistic persistence to implement explicit storage

and retrieval of her private attributes

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Surprise Statefulness Strategies Standard text retrieval strategy (do you still use that wooden

hula hoop ring?) Object instantiation strategy (give her an old LP of of the

first band she ever saw)

Benefits and drawbacks Considerable investment up front Corresponding high return

Related Patterns Interested Listener - listen

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Design Pattern Books

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Back to - �Retrospectives

A bit of ceremony can be useful

Aino V. Corry, [email protected]

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Stories from the trenches – successful retrospectives

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Interested Listener Problem You want to enter and maintain conversational state with a client, high-quality request/response cycles, without exhausting system resources

Forces Without knowledge of attributes, maintaining conversational state is difficult Talking to another person can be boring Talking about yourself is almost always interesting

Solution Get the public or private attributes by calling standard getter methods With these in hand, run more complex methods

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Interested Listener Strategies

askForDirectionsOrInformation, askHerAboutHerBook, askHerAdviceAboutSomething

Implement LookLikeYouAreListening

Benefits and drawbacks Easier than thinkOfSomethingClever More effective than seenYouHereBefore Sometimes your data is stored in a friendZone cookie

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Back to - �Retrospectives

A bit of ceremony can be useful

Aino V. Corry, [email protected]

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Stories from the trenches – unsuccessful retrospectives

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Findings: (Esther Derby, me, others)

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Leaving out a step – without:

•  Setting the stage - No trust nor focus •  Gather data - The retrospective is

ungrounded •  Generate insights - Habitual thinking •  Decide what to do – What’s the point •  Close the retrospective – You get

Groundhog day

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Fifth Position Break

Problem You want to easily find women and create sessions by exposing desirable services and attributes

Forces Women love dancing

Very few men engage in this behavior

Solution Use Fifth Position Break to meet and impress extensive numbers of women on demand

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Fifth Position Break Strategies There’s no business like show business

Related Patterns Exposed Collector - engage in a variety of activities to meet women Pandimensional Renaissance Differentiator - learning a variety of skills and interests

Benefits and drawbacks A magic button for creating instant dating objects Requires significant resource investment of time and money

Swinging with girls of unknown pleasure

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Back to - �Retrospectives

A bit of ceremony can be useful

Aino V. Corry, [email protected]

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They might also just be bored...�Change may spice it up!

•  Futurespective - time travel

•  de Bono’s 6 thinking hats - parallel thinking

•  Dialogue sheets - planned already

•  Appreciative retrospective

•  Rotate the facilitator role

•  External facilitator

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Distributed Retrospectives

•  Cultural –  Careful of outsiders

–  Talking stick (Italian vs. Japanese)

•  Technologies –  Skype

–  Wiki

–  Google hangouts

–  Google docs

•  Avatars

•  More preparation

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Take away message

If you leave out a step in your retrospective, you will make problems emerge, that you -

do not understand fully nor find solutions to

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Thank you for your time "

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Next steps – read and practise

Project Retrospectives, Norm Kerth

Agile retrospectives, Diana Larsen & Esther Derby

The Skilled Facilitator, Roger Schwartz

Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision Making, Sam Kaner et al,

Facilitating with Ease!, Ingrid Bens

The Retrospective Handbook, Patrick Kua (e-book)

Check out Linda Risings site, www.lindarising.org