![]() ![]() Here are the approaches/tools used by the six hosts: Each line had a host and the host was responsible for running the retrospective in whatever way they chose. We borrowed Zoom professional lines from the Business Agility Institute, ICAgile and from some of the facilitators. The breakout room boxes on the landing page were live links to six different Zoom lines. The panel discussion centred around the characteristics of good retrospectives in general and then asked how these could be replicated or replaced when running retrospectives remotely.Īfter the panel discussion participants were invited to pick a breakout room they wanted to move into for the next 30 minutes to experience different retrospective approaches using different virtual tools. Using the Q&A feature of Zoom the panel was able to respond to questions but the attendee experience was mainly broadcast mode. This supports up to 500 attendees and is largely one-directional. ![]() The structure for the event was a 30 minute panel discussion, presented using the Zoom webinar functionality. The idea was to give participants a “landing page” where they could select which part of the event they wanted to participate in and give them the freedom to move between the virtual rooms freely. To do this, we needed to go beyond the standard capabilities of a tool like Zoom, so we took inspiration from the recent Business Agility Conference in New York where the organisers had moved to supporting more than half of their participants attending remotely. We wanted to put people into small groups and have them experience different styles of retrospective format and different remote collaboration tools. We looked at it as an opportunity to experiment - there are lots of unknowns in the new ways of working that teams are experiencing and we wanted to provide a variety of possible approaches and different retrospective techniques that participants could experience in a safe environment, and hopefully have some fun while doing so. In late March 2020 we had scheduled an in-person event for World Retrospective day on March 26, however New Zealand went into Level 4 lockdown due to COVID-19 on that day so we pivoted to switch it to an online event and postponed it for a week - we were pretty confident that the first day of lockdown was not a great day to ask people to jump into a new meeting format. This is a problem a group of us from Agile Welly wanted to tackle. How do you discuss what worked and what didn’t work so well when you’re not in the same room able to see the nuances of body-language and posture that make up so much of interpersonal communication? How do you brainstorm new ideas if you’re used to getting up and writing on a whiteboard to help make your ideas comprehensible to others? What’s not so clear is how these techniques and tools can be applied when the people involved are not in the same room. InfoQ has many resources on the topic including a minibook by Ben Linders & Luis Gonçalves: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives. Retrospectives have well understood structures and there are many techniques for running them. For many teams one of the most important team events is the retrospective - a regular opportunity for teams to examine their collaborative ways of working and look for opportunities to collectively improve their teamwork and their processes. With the sudden shift to remote working, teams who had a regular cadence of collaboration activities suddenly find themselves having to shift to holding them remotely. ![]()
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