If participants ask why the team takes just as much time to discuss “what’s working” as opposed to staying squarely focused on the areas of improvement, be sure to remind them that this retrospective-like everything in Agile-is part of a continuous improvement process.Stop Doing: “Not Testing/Being Late to Meetings”.Less of: “Product Bugs/Useless Meetings”.Start Doing: “Prioritizing Tasks/Saying “I need help”.More of: “Remote Working/Design Workshops”.Continue Doing: “Personal Development/Smiling More”.When presenting the workshop format to participants, be sure to add a few sticky notes to provide the team with an example of the array of ideas that can be put into each of the five categories.To make this a collaborative experience for the entire team, she recommends the following: Naya Luceau, Agile Coach and Scrum Master, has hosted many Starfish Retrospectives. The three sticky notes with the most votes will be deemed the “winners” of this exercise and put into action immediately. Once all ideas have been submitted, the facilitator should take a moment to group together similar ideas before sharing them with the team and then putting them up for a vote.įinally, the facilitator gives each participant an opportunity to vote for the three areas of improvement to be implemented during the next sprint. Additionally, this is the point when other participants can ask questions and discuss the ideas shared in more detail.įollowing the discussion in Step 2, the facilitator gives participants another five to ten minutes to hone in on ideas for improvement and write them down on sticky notes. If something isn’t clear on one of the sticky notes, the participant who submitted can add a bit of clarification.
Once the time cap has been reached, the facilitator reads aloud the participants' sticky notes placed on the (physical or virtual) board. As a best practice, be sure to assign each category a different sticky note color to keep things organized visually. Each sticky note should represent only one idea.īe sure to use “polling booth mode” to ensure participants don’t inadvertently influence each other with the ideas they choose to submit for consideration. The facilitator should give participants around five to ten minutes to jot down ideas on sticky notes for each of the five categories above. Stop Doing: What are we currently doing that adds no value to the team whatsoever?.Less of: What are we currently doing that isn’t driving enough value for the team?.Start Doing: What should we start doing ( or start testing) to help the team work better?.More of: What are we currently doing that could add more value if we doubled down on it?.
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