distributedrestrospectives
Notes on Distributed Retrospectives
originally captured at Agile2014 Open Jam session hosted by MarkKilby (last update Jan2015) Contributors: George Dinwiddie, AgileBill Krebs, missing anyone?
Types of distributed teams
*NOTE: You need multiple tools. There is no silver bullet (tool); can’t rely on just one tool*
Touch screen / smart board
Dual monitors
Video (2-way)
Google Apps is a good default collaborative tool for small teams (10 or less)
Otherwise, for larger groups Adobe Connect - goes far beyond
WebEx, Go2Meetings and others. Allows for “break out” sessions.
Other collaboration tools:
GroupMap - can do mindmapping, sticky notes and other types of exercises; use templates or create your own
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Gathering Feelings data
Collaborative white boards
Collaborative Sticky-note apps (i.e., these apps have “sticky note” objects that you can manipulate)
Collaborative Drawing apps
Cacoo - also available as a Google App
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Collaborative Mindmapping apps
Online templates for planning exercises and retrospectives:
Techniques
using tools
Lean Coffee – using Google spreadsheet or Google Doc (see templates above)
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See also Templates: like
retr-o-mat (more for face-to-face, but can be adapted for online)
Reviewing past actions from prior retrospectives
Helps to have co-host to monitor the tech
Buddy system (via chat)
Pair design and facilitate
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Not discussed, but discovered later
Jesse Fewell’s free e-book on distributed teams,
“Can You Hear Me Now?”, talks about some of the common reasons, challenges and strategies for working with distributed teams.
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