Planning your next agile retrospective? Start with a random plan, change it to fit the team's situation, print it and share the URL. Or browse around for new ideas!
Say how much time you set aside for this phase, then explain the rules of Lean Coffee for retrospectives:
Everyone writes down topics they’d like to discuss - 1 topic per sticky
Put the stickies up on a whiteboard or flipchart. The person who wrote it describes the topic in 1 or 2 sentences. Group stickies that are about the same topic
Everyone dot-votes for the 2 topics they want to discuss
Order the stickies according to votes
Start with the topic of highest interest
Set a timer for 5 minutes. When the timer beeps, everyone gives a quick thumbs up or down. Majority of thumbs up: The topic gets another 5 minutes. Majority of thumbs down: Start the next topic.
Corinna wished for something like Retromat during her Scrummaster years.
Eventually she just built it herself in the hope that it would be useful to others, too.
Any questions, suggestions or encouragement?
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If you like Retromat you might also like Corinna's blog and her summaries on Wall-Skills.com.
