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bookmark_borderSprint Retrospective Using The World Cafe Method

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The Sprint Retrospective provides one of the best opportunities for Scrum teams to discover improvements. Retrospectives aren’t the only opportunities. And Scrum Teams aren’t the only organisation members that need to discover opportunities for improvement.

This post will describe a facilitation tool that I’ve used to help teams and other stakeholders discover such opportunities. For each, I will also describe a situation in which I used it effectively. The name of the organisation will be anonymised.

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bookmark_borderRetrospectives – Building Great Teams

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This article was originally published on January 22, 2014.

The first thing I do when a Scrum Master tells me that they didn’t do a sprint retrospective because of lack of time is count…slowly…to ten, plastic smile pasted on my face while I try to focus through the red haze in front of my eyes, chaotic thoughts running through my mind…“No time for improvement? No time to become more productive? No time to become great?”, before I regain some semblance of rationality. For me, the sprint retrospective is the most valuable Scrum ceremony.

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bookmark_border5 Scrum Essentials

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This article was originally published on May 14th, 2013.

Scrum is a simple framework to understand. It is not always easy to implement. A team humble enough to suspend disbelief and trust the process will start experiencing the benefits within 3 sprints. The business and users, will similarly experience the benefits in as short a time-span.

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