Retrospective postcards

Scatter them around the room and instruct team members to pick the postcard that best represents their view of the last iteration. After choosing they write down three keywords describing the postcar i. In turn everyone hangs up their post- and index cards and describes their choice. I scattered the postcards all over the room on the floor, so that the participants have to get up and wander about.

Session plan: The postcards were part of the Information Gathering phase: Pick the postcard that best resembles how you see the team right now.

Hand out blank postcards. Each team member silently writes a postcard to another team member, thanking them for something they did. They can write as many postcards as they like, and they can address them either to individuals or to multiple people.

Collect all postcards. Consider using envelopes with the name on for privacy. Find a large selection of sizes and shapes for your postcard needs! Gilt für Lieferungen in folgendes Land: Deutschland.

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In an earlier post, I wrote about how teams can focus on the positive by devoting an entire retrospective to playing the “Appreciation Game. Borrowing from another retrospective technique. During one of the retrospectives, I asked the team to write a postcard to one of our ex-team members.

Amer left the team to pursue new endeavours in Montreal. Trello is the visual collaboration platform that gives teams perspective on projects. Use Trello to collaborate, communicate and coordinate on all of your projects.

I used postcards from cities or countries where the training took place and called those letters to the future. However, having accumulated a large number of wishes written on cards, I still was not satisfied with them. Retrospective Techniques for Coaches, Scrum Masters, and Other Facilitators. Sometimes I used them at the start as a warming up activity, sometimes the cards were just lying on the table and noone cared about them. Every time I felt that I could not transfer emotions from one group of people to another.

The team were always a little tense, stressed after doing the review meeting, and going straight into the retrospective it was always a little subdued and quiet. Therefore it became important that the retrospective was a time for the team to relax and have a little fun. To create the right atmosphere for the team to be able to. Vintage Postcards from Pictou County, Nova Scotia.

There are two other postcards from ’and ’I’ll have to dig up for another—more humorous—post.

There are many great retrospective ideas out in the Agile community, including variations and additions on the basic questions and creative facilitation techniques. ScrumMasters should develop a toolkit of retrospective techniques that they can use and adapt with their teams. The Postcards (from the edge) exercise is a great mechanism for doing this, to give closure to individuals involved on a project.

I recently ran this for a team and my thanks to Esther Derby for the idea. Postcards is our new, locally-produced program featuring the art, history and cultural heritage of western Minnesota and beyond. Funding for the production of Postcards comes from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.