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Plans for Retrospectives

Corinna Baldauf

Would you like to facilitate agile retrospectives? Are you unsure which activities will result in a good experience for the team and enable change? The creator of Retromat has got you covered: 15 plans + 1 bonus plan for effective agile retrospectives – ready-to-facilitate and lasting 60-90 minutes

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Fanstastic plans and where to find them: Right here! 15 plans + 1 bonus plan for effective agile retrospectives – ready-to-facilitate and lasting 60-90 minutes

Retromat is a tool for experienced facilitators. It gives you dozens of ideas but it's up to you to pick activities that form a cohesive whole. That's tricky for beginners. Enter "Plans for Retrospectives" with plans for all occasions: New team, complainy team, performing team – you name it. Enable effective change – starting now

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Corinna Baldauf

Corinna Baldauf is an Agile and Lean practioner since 2010 (mostly Scrum and Kanban). Her perspective is that of a long-term employee at a truly agile organization (sipgate in Germany). She is a facilitator, writer and solution-focussed coach.

She is happiest when she is sharing valuable content – on Retromat.org, Wall-Skills.com and in her books.

Got a question or suggestion? Email hallo@corinnabaldauf.de or tweet to @CorinnaBaldauf. 

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Table of Contents

Hi there!

The Basics

  1. What is a retrospective?
  2. Ground Rules
  3. What is the goal of retrospectives?
  4. Why do we vary activities?

About this book

  1. Context
  2. Terminology and Icons

Building Blocks

  1. Lean Coffee (#51)
  2. Dotvoting
  3. Gladiator Vote / Roman Vote
  4. Was that a decision?

General Purpose Plans

  1. Learning Matrix
  2. Feelings
  3. I like, I wish
  4. For many people

Newly-formed Teams

  1. Expectations
  2. Laundry Day

New to Agile

  1. Agile Principles
  2. Story Time
  3. Support Ticket Overload

Houston, we have a problem

  1. Bad vibes? Appreciation!
  2. Complaining – not taking responsibility
  3. Reluctant Participants
  4. Follow through & a new phase

Houston, it’s a really big problem

  1. Company Map
  2. Writing the Unspeakable

Time to say goodbye

Planning a retrospective

Inventing custom activities

  1. Bonus plan: A Christmas Retro

Appendix

  1. My facilitation style
  2. Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development

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About the Contributors

Thomas helps workers to clean their ecosystem by straightening and tuning up their essential activities, eliminating accumulated work waste and rebuilding meaningful teams.

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