Theme: Summer Holiday Nice tans or sunburns? Maybe someone spotted an ice cream truck… What better way to enter the summer season than with a summer retrospective format! The Icebreaker To get everybody in the mood for this retrospective, the icebreaker is a fun exercise that also helps to get to know your colleagues a […]
Theme: Mowgli (The Jungle Book) Enter the world of Mowgly from the Jungle Book with this retrospective theme. In this format, we start with a lightweight icebreaker and after that go to the different stages of the Mowgli story. The Icebreaker To get everybody in the mood for this retrospective, the icebreaker is a fun
Theme: The Sprint Planning This retrospective is themed on the Sprint Planning sessions of a Scrum team. The format “The Perfection Game” fits well in this exercise, but is not limited to this theme alone. You can use the perfection game format for various topics, so don’t limit yourself to only using it for talking
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The Icebreaker As the icebreaker for the 360 feedback retrospective, I selected a fun and easy icebreaker to get people actively engaged and present in the session. Because the 360 feedback retrospective itself is a more challenging exercise, I used an easy icebreaker that’s also fun and not too serious. “Post a picture or meme
The icebreaker The “Better, To Improve, Just Do It and Grateful” retrospective starts with a creative icebreaker: Post a picture or meme that describes your perspective on the last iteration. This is a general icebreaker that you can ofcourse also use in other retrospective formats as well. It’s a fun icebreaker that can really set
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What is an Increment in Scrum? An increment is a stepping stone towards a (software) product. At the end of a Sprint in Scrum, the team should deliver an increment that is potentially shippable and meets the Definition of Done. In each Sprint, the team can extend the product by adding to the increment. That
What is a Sprint Backlog? The Sprint Backlog is the collection of work items that contain all the work that will be done by the development team during the current sprint to meet the Sprint Goal. The Sprint Backlog is crafted by the development team during the Sprint Planning. It is important that it is
“The problem with specifying the method along with the goal is one of diminished control. Provide your people with the objective and let them figure out the method.”
