Table of contents | page # |
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| Introduction | 7 |
| PREPARING FOR RETROSPECTIVES |
| Count your interruptions | 10 |
| Walk the value stream | 12 |
| Take data into the room | 14 |
| Use numbers to gauge success | 16 |
| Crowd source feedback | 18 |
| Visualise waste | 20 |
| Run an ideas box | 22 |
| PROVIDING A CLEAR FOCUS |
| Renew your vows | 26 |
| Focus on stakeholder relationships | 28 |
| Hold a technical debt retrospective | 30 |
| Use timelines with different dimensions | 32 |
| Review projects with a larger group | 34 |
| Compare against models, not teams | 36 |
| Dissect a story | 38 |
| Run periodic complexity retrospectives | 40 |
| Consider waste in the wider system | 42 |
| ADAPTING THE ENVIRONMENT |
| Get a room | 46 |
| Involve business stakeholders | 48 |
| Throw food into the mix | 50 |
| Choose to travel | 52 |
| Take it outside | 54 |
| Do remote retrospectives | 56 |
| Dim the lights | 58 |
| FACILITATING SESSIONS |
| Don't just say ‘we can't’ | 62 |
| Don't let facilitators solve problems | 64 |
| Stand and deliver | 66 |
| Allow silence | 68 |
| Let the team dictate direction | 70 |
| Be free inside fences | 72 |
| Learn fast, don't fail fast | 74 |
| Don't be scared of freestyling it | 76 |
| Create a retrospective menu | 78 |
| Don't let impediments become permanent | 80 |
| RE-ENERGISING RETROSPECTIVES |
| Do a face-to-face team 360 | 84 |
| Tailor your retrospectives | 86 |
| Celebrate good times | 88 |
| Keep switching your process | 90 |
| Keep it short | 92 |
| Switch your facilitators around | 94 |
| Play retrospective roulette | 96 |
| IMPROVING OUTCOMES |
| Create a business case | 100 |
| Look after the pennies | 102 |
| Isolate experiments | 104 |
| Bake improvements in | 106 |
| Task out improvement ideas | 108 |
| Test assumptions with small experiments | 110 |
| Don’t batch your retrospection | 112 |
| Check out as well as in | 114 |
| Design experiments with goal-question-metric | 116 |
| Make improvements your number one | 118 |
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| Bibliography | 120 |
