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Comment on Organizational Retrospectives by Ellen Gottesdiener

Ellen Gottesdiener — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:56:27 +0000

thanks for sharing this, Brendan! i agree with Diana and Ryan: look also for the working/continue items (the appreciative inquiry view).

also, as part of feedback, gather data from the various teams, and consider aggregating them into trends. the data might be around product (e.g. quality via test trends, customer feedback, metrics on CI and regression tests, etc.) and process (e.g. team processes including how long to stablitize velocity as well as trends on actions teams implement post-iteration retro).

good stuff, would make a great presentation/paper at, oh, say, Agile 20xx!

Comment on Organizational Retrospectives by Ryan Martens

Ryan Martens — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:25:53 +0000

What a wonderful piece of work to share. I have to say that I totally agree with Dianna. We do root-cause meetings around here, but we also balance them with appreciative inquiry. I believe in working hard on maximizing your strengths, while minding your weaknesses.

We do our organizational retrospectives prior to our quarterly planning, we use an ORID approach. We do not do skip-level meeting, that sounds like a good thing for us to try.

Thanks again,
Ryan

Comment on Organizational Retrospectives by Diana

Diana — Sun, 31 May 2009 14:09:22 +0000

I like your idea of mid-project organizational retrospectives. Most organizations save that for the end-of-project retrospective. However, I’d add one category to your list: “Working and Important to ensure it keeps working.” A focus on issues that aren’t working is fine, and when we focus only on the problems, we learn more and more about how to create problems. (Cooperrider: ~ “People learn in the direction they ask questions.”) You’ll gain even more if you consider root causes of the feedback on successful or energizing factors that added important beneficial impact to the project, and then plan to support and continue them. I.e., learning more about creating success.

Best,
Diana Larsen
co-author, Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great!

Comment on Lean Thinking for Agile Process Evolution Video from XPDX by Shane Hayes

Shane Hayes — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:09:19 +0000

The slides are hard to read in the video. Is it possible to get a separate copy?

Comment on Apps I Can’t Live Without by Ryan Martens

Ryan Martens — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:28:21 +0000

Brendan,
Thanks for the including us on this list of “must have apps.”

I am in hopes we can engage you in feedback on coming changes in reporting/metrics and UI. Your feedback would be really appreciated as we leverage our new platform with a focus on current customers and users.

Thanks again,
Ryan – Rally, CTO
http://www.rallydev.com – http://www.agilecommons.org

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Comment on Agile Contracting Presentation by Chris Spagnuolo

Chris Spagnuolo — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:04:28 +0000

Thanks for the shoutout!