Retrospectives
Agile 2012 submissions
Last week I submitted a couple of sessions to the Agile 2012 conference. The sessions focus on two particular areas that are very close to my heart and where I see a great deal of opportunity for us to improve as a community.
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Agile retrospectives – Cause and effect
Thanks to Rachel Davies for sharing her approach to constructing a diagram of effects.
Rachel proposes that the diagram of effects can trigger a team to discuss how a variety of issues relate and goes on to highlight advice from Bas Vodde and Craig Larman in their first book “Scaling Lean and Agile Development”, the First Law of Diagramming is “The primary value in diagrams is in the discussion while diagramming—we model to have a conversation.”
I have been using a slightly different approach in retrospectives recently. With a similar intent to Rachel I hope to trigger conversations that result in a team sharing there concerns and issues and coming to a shared view as to how these relate and where would be a good point for intervention.
