1. Agile Tour 2010 - Pune
Make your Retrospectives
Fun and Effective
Archana Joshi &
Vijay Chandra Katte
Wipro Consulting Services
archana.joshi@wipro.com
vijay.chandra@wipro.com

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Sounds Familiar ?
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Why Retrospectives?

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Retrospectives – Common problems
1. To Share or Not to Share
2. Switch on the listening mode
3. Distributed teams
4. The blame game goes on and on
5. All Talk – No Action

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Effectiveness ….
1. Time-boxed Retrospectives
2. Structured Agenda
3. Prioritize the Retrospective Items
4. Monitor & Measure Retrospective Index
5. Pigs and Chickens in Retrospectives too
6. For distributed teams – have facilitator at each location

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Hidden to Reveal

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Ishikawa Diagrams

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Picking a Name
Archana
Vijay
Jeffson
Jason

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Round Robin
Team A
Location A
Team B
Location B

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Mad, Sad, Glad

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Questions ?