Sprint Retrospective Meeting,

MJ's techniques for making Scrum Sprint Retrospectives more effective using ideas from Esther Derby, Diana Larson, Norm Kerth, Sam Kaner, Roger Schwarz, and even John Gottman.
Full version with working quizzes is at scrumtrainingseries.com/Sprint...
* What is the purpose of the Sprint Retrospective Meeting? When do we have the Sprint Retrospective Meeting?
* Only learning teams and learning organizations will thrive in the future. A Scrum Master must create this environment for learning, despite the traditional habit of focusing on micro-efficiency.
* To remain a neutral facilitator, Scrum Master has a role outside the team. (Note to certification candidates: Some tests may require you to answer that the Product Owner and Scrum Master are "on the team," an unfortunate oversimplification.)
* Why we need status leveling techniques.
* How to conduct a safety check. (Example responses shown were a real team's actual responses. Note the point spread!)
* The invisible gun no one will tell you you're wearing.
* Group size, unclear Product Ownership, contract relationships, and geographic distribution are usually impediments to full safety.
* Classic Scrum Retrospective (What went well? What could be improved? What did we learn? What still puzzles us?) and example actions.
* People tend to push for particular solutions before agreeing on the problems. Focused conversation principles (ORID: Objective questions, Reflective questions, Interpretive questions, Decision questions) can help.
* Use silent writing to elicit multiple perspectives.
* Retrospective is for the team, not those outside it.
* An example timeline retrospective.
* As the team matures, the Scrum Master's role shifts toward transforming the outer organization.
* Effective decision making for teams.

[@ChrisAthanas]

One thing about these cartoons is when the characters say something, it’s not clear if this is a behavior to be emulated or to be eschewed There seems to be a lack of checking if this material lands with folks who are completely unfamiliar with it Some of the characters say profound things and other things seem to be inside jokes It's hard to know which is which This is even more difficult for non English speakers And a lot of this is very open to interpretation and context

[@MichaelJamesSeattle]

Thank you for letting me know. I'm thinking of adding some quiz questions or narrator explanation to help clarify the learning objectives. Would that help? Also let me know which things were unclear so I can know where to make changes.

[@ChrisAthanas]

@@MichaelJamesSeattle you don't give the answers to the questions or discuss the reasoning I feel giving these answers will not remove the need for your service, in fact will give customers more of a reason to require your services I'm a somewhat outsider as a developer, I have been doing scrum and agile type processes in my own businesses but when encountering these topics of scrum and agile in other organizations confused the hell out of me After reviewing where these practices came from and how they are being used,.I can still see a tremendous disconnect and the loaded terminology is a huge barrier All this requires a new vocabulary now bc of the tremendous amount of confusion that businesses have around these ideas After looking at all your cartoons, I have many suggestions about improvement If you want a deeper dive, please let me know

[@MichaelJamesSeattle]

These were not originally made for KZbin. The KZbin versions may not show the correct answers for long enough. The full version at scrumtrasiningseries.com/ (for example scrumtrainingseries.com/SprintRetrospectiveMeeting/ ) give feedback on the quiz answers. Those are also free, no registration needed.