{"id":625,"date":"2021-01-21T09:53:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T08:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/?p=625"},"modified":"2021-02-27T11:39:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T10:39:54","slug":"story-cubes-for-retrospectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/story-cubes-for-retrospectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Story Cubes for Retrospectives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a guest session at one of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openfriday.org\">Open Fridays<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LunaMel801\">Cynthia Hohlstein<\/a> and Kevin Plechinger hosted an inspiring session on and with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.storycubes.com\/\">Story Cubes<\/a>. Because neither of them blogs, I get to share their idea with you: Story Cubes are sets of 9 dice with images on them. The images cover a  wide range of motives, such as speech bubble, sheep, star, hand, walking stick figure, &#8230; The idea is that you roll 3 dice and then tell a story that contains the 3 motives you rolled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"309\" height=\"103\" src=\"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/storycubes.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/storycubes.png 309w, https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/storycubes-300x100.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>This  can easily be turned into a fun activity for agile retrospectives: players answer a question instead of just telling a story. Cynthia and  Kevin already had a couple of ideas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>What was last sprint like?<\/li><li>How do customers view our product?<\/li><li>What&#8217;s the state of agility here in our company?<\/li><li>What was your carreer path? How did you get here?<\/li><li>&#8230;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We  spend the hour-long session answering questions in groups of three. It  was very interesting because the cubes prompt you to talk about aspects  you wouldn&#8217;t normally have touched on &#8211; you tell the truth and still have to incorporate the 3 images. Among others, we used the &#8220;Customer View&#8221; question and it was quite revealing. Story Cubes help with changing perspective and add a fun element.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you Cynthia and Kevin for introducing us to story cubes!<\/p>\n\n\n<h3><strong>PS: Did you know there's a Retromat eBook Bundle? Ready-made retrospective plans for beginners and all activities from Retromat for experienced facilitators. <a href=\"https:\/\/leanpub.com\/b\/retromat-bundle-agile-retrospectives\">Check out the Retromat books<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a guest session at one of our Open Fridays Cynthia Hohlstein and Kevin Plechinger hosted an inspiring session on and with&nbsp;Story Cubes. Because neither of them blogs, I get to share their idea with you: Story Cubes are sets of 9 dice with images on them. The images cover a wide range of motives, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/story-cubes-for-retrospectives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Story Cubes for Retrospectives&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}