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Praktisch op weg naar Teamresultaat

Diverse handige werkvormen zijn hier te vinden: http://www.praktischopweg.nl/werkvormen.html

  • Taakbord & Stand-up
  • Relatief schatten
  • Story Mapping
  • Swim Lane
  • Retrospective
  • Meeting Manifesto
  • Elimineren van verspillingen
  • Visgraatanalyse
  • Vaardighedenkompas
  • Teamontwikkeling
  • Persoonlijkheidsstijlen
  • Teamwork
  • Focusoefening
  • Impact Mapping
  • Prioriteitenmatrix
  • Zeesteranalyse
  • Bevlogenheidsthermometer
  • Oplossingsgericht coachen
  • Delegation Poker
  • Organisatiescan
  • Dialoogwerkblad Scrum
  • Value Stream Map
  • Dialoogwerkblad SWITCH
  • Dialoogwerkblad Zeilboot
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Refreshing Your Retrospective With Story Cubes and Liberating Structures

Original, post can be found here: https://dzone.com/articles/using-story-cubes-and-liberating-structures-combo

How to Do a Story Cube Retrospection

Things You May Need 

  • A whiteboard
  • Markers
  • 9 cubes from the story cube set.
  • Sticky notes for “1-2-4-All.”

Preparation

Create three columns on the board, like “Happy,” “Sad,” and “Action.”

Let the team roll the dice and pick them up one at a time. Every dice will have an image on the surface. Let the team members talk about the experience from sprint which comes to their mind while looking at the image. Make a note on either the “Happy” or “Sad” list. Repeat this activity for all of the dice.

Now against each happy or sad item, have the team dot vote on what they want to pick up to improve for the next sprint (my recommendation is to pick just one or maximum two, depending on your timebox).

Now for every item that is selected run a “1-2-4-All” session.

How to Run a “1-2-4-All” Session

Let the team members brainstorm over the topic individually and make notes on a sticky note for a full minute. Repeat the same activity in pairs (exchange the ideas in a brief manner) for no more than two minutes.

Repeat the same activity in quartets for four minutes, and do it one final time with the entire group sharing and noting the most suitable solutions around the topic for five minutes.

 Note: you can customize the repetition based on your group size.

Once you have run the 1-2-4-All for the selected item, you will have solid actionable items derived by the team to conclude the sprint retrospective.

More ideas can be found here:

https://www.infoq.com/news/2015/05/story-cubes/
https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/rory-cubes-sprint-retrospective
https://medium.com/@dymissy/effective-retrospective-with-rorys-story-cubes-72da2d389144

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How to do a fun and insightful last Sprint Retrospective of the year?

Erik Stoffer facilitated a retrospective to look back at last year by drawing a timeline to share insights, learnings and experiences. They directly looked forward what to expect in the first part of 2020 by visualizing this.

1️⃣ [5 min] Set the stage: Creating a soft-landing after the Sprint Review by discussing the Sprint Review feedback. And sharing that we are going to look back on the year behind us because it is the last Sprint Retrospective of the year.

2️⃣ [5 min] Check-in: Question “If the last sprint (two weeks) was a season – what would it be, and why?” We did a round (popcorn-style) of approx. 1 minute each.

Looking back ⏮

3️⃣[5 min to draw, 8 min for feedback] Collect input: Grab an empty paper and draw a timeline of how you experienced last year with the team (think of successes, failures, go-lives, process changes, team changes, events, trainings, conferences, etc.) Everyone presented his / her drawing with a short voice-over.

4️⃣ [2 min, 5 min for feedback] Discover learnings: Populate your timeline with things you learned by using “dot voting” sticker. Everyone presented his / her learnings with a short voice-over.

Looking forward ⏭

5️⃣ [5 min to draw, 8 min for feedback] Collect input: Grab an empty paper and visualize how you expect the first part of the year could look like (taking the learnings, team goals and personal goals into account). I invited everyone to only focus on the first 3 to 6 months of the year. After visualizing this, everyone presented his / her drawing with a short voice-over.

6️⃣ [5 min] Closing: To close the retrospective everyone ended with: “One word on how you are feeling about the next year”.

Debriefing:

Everyone in the team had the chance to retrospect and share on how they experienced the year with the team. Funny fact: some shared experiences of a few months ago which already were forgotten by other team members. 

It was challenging but insightful to already share the expectations for the first part of next year on team-  and personal level. This way we were able to create a shared expectation on the first part of 2020. And this was also an opportunity to sync on the team goals and ask help on personal goals from each other.

💭 Next time I think I will experiment with adding one more step, by inviting the team members – after drawing their version of next year between step 5 and 6 – to draw next year together so we can hang this at the team spot.

If you have other ideas or insights on this Retrospective, please drop a message below. Or if you do this retrospective with your own team, please let me know your feedback 🙂

Used materials:

📑 Flip over with the agenda

⌚️ Time Timer (for timeboxing)

⬜️ Empty paper (A4 format)

✏️ Markers, Sharpies

🔴 “dot voting” stickers

Scrum on!

P.s. he bumped into this blog of Sam Laing, which was what inspired him to design the retrospective as described above. Originally posted here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-do-fun-insightful-last-sprint-retrospective-year-erik-stoffer/

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How to reveal team secrets with 120 bricks in just 20 minutes

In short, there are four steps:

  1. Warmup round to get familiarized with building metaphors using bricks and storytelling.
  2. Build round 1: build and explain your own team and your relationship to it.
  3. Build round 2: build and explain your wish for your team.
  4. Finally, reflect and share observations with each other by using a 1-2-4-ALL Liberating Structure.

Continue to read the step by step facilitation guide by Swen-Peter Ekkebus for this fun way to reveal team secrets: https://bit.ly/reveal-team-secrets

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Agile Resources

I came across Andy Bacon his blog that lists some interesting articles and resources, you can find it here: https://andybacon.com/agile-resources/

And just in case he ever decides to take his website offline, here is a quick mirror 😉

Some Agile Basics

Agile Related Certifications

Scaling Frameworks

Retrospectives

Daily Scrum

Scrum Graphics

Checklists

User Stories

Role of Managers in Agile

DiSC Assessment (free)

Games

Metrics

Estimation, Data Driven Estimates, and Forecasting

Collaboration Tools

Happiness

Podcasts

Product Owner Resources

  • Opportunity canvas
  • Lean canvas
  • Product vision
  • Product roadmap
  • Release plan

Random Helpful Things

Technical Topics

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Retrospective board game ‘Golden Apples’

If you need some inspiration for a fun retrospective, take a look at this board game:

Inspired by Carmen Guerra Jurado her holiday in Greece, it has:

  • Greek gods and monsters(🦉🔱)
  • Death (☠️)
  • Lego (🧱)
  • Personal feedback questions (💌)
  • Team related questions (🎭)
  • Sprint related questions (🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏼‍♂️) and, due to a lack of golden apples;
  • Gold chocolate coins(🍫🥇)

The teams enjoyed it and results were fruitful! (Pun intended.) The game itself still needs some tweaking. But Monopoly better watch its back! 😆

Copied from: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/carmen-guerra-jurado-b3156924_creativity-scrummaster-retrospective-activity-6582154931749339136-nGn7/

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Hand retrospective

Je maakt gebruik van je eigen hand. Je geeft iedere vinger een betekenis in relatie tot de afgelopen sprint. Je laat mensen nadenken over hun eigen functioneren en over het functioneren van het proces. Tegelijkertijd activeer je mensen om actief mee te doen. Teken zelf een hand op een whiteboard, door je eigen hand over te trekken. Schrijf bij de vingers:

Duim: Wat ging er goed?
Wijsvinger: Wat is jouw doel voor de komende sprint?
Middelvinger: Wat ging er niet goed? Wat wil je wegnemen uit het sprint-proces?
Ringvinger: Waar geef jij commitment voor af, de volgende sprint?
Kleine vinger: Wat is jouw persoonlijke zwakte?
(Vooral de kleine vinger is daarbij een afwisseling die het geheel persoonlijker maakt.)

Vervolgens vraag je aan het team om hun invulling op geeltjes te schrijven (5 minuten timeboxed). Hierna vraag je de teamleden om omstebeurt hun eigen hand op het bord over te trekken, waarna ze de geeltjes bij iedere vinger hangen en uitleg geven.

as copied from:  https://www.scrum.nl/blog/retrospective/