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Hi,

I would be interested in your feedback on the way we do Sprint
retrospectives: Instead of putting sticky notes with significant
events on a rather abstract timeline representing the Sprint we put
them directly on the respective Sprint burndown chart.

Advantages:
- Encourages thinking (why was the burndown high/low on that day?)
- Helps concentrating on events relevant for the Sprint and team
- Helps illustrating correlation between cause and effect

Drawbacks:
?

What do you think of this approach? Your feedback is highly appreciated.

Best regards,

Jo




Thu Dec 11, 2008 11:34 pm

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Hi, I would be interested in your feedback on the way we do Sprint retrospectives: Instead of putting sticky notes with significant events on a rather abstract...
jofireball
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Dec 11, 2008
11:34 pm

... Sounds like a good idea to me. What do you use to draw your burn-downs? If you use something like flip-charts I would imagine you could run out of space...
Joakim Karlsson
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Dec 12, 2008
8:41 am

Interesting idea! Besides the space problem Jo already mentioned, I could imagine that another drawback potentially might be a too strong focus on things that...
Ilja Preuß
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Dec 12, 2008
9:51 am

Thanks for sharing this interesting idea. I'm with Ilja - I try to vary my retrospectives never quite the same thing twice in a row. Cheers Mark ... -- Cheers ...
Mark Levison
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Dec 12, 2008
3:24 pm

Jo - I have to commend you on discovering a great technique! Regardless of how effective it turns out to be, well done on innovating and trying something new. ...
Mike Sutton
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Dec 12, 2008
6:31 pm

Sounds like an interesting idea, but I have a hard time visualizing the whole getup. Could you post a picture or two of what it looks like? Thanks D....
Dmitry Beransky
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Dec 12, 2008
6:56 pm

... I have some pictures of my suggestions if that is what you were asking about Dmitry. Mike...
Mike Sutton
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Dec 14, 2008
12:25 am

Can you post the pictures somewhere? and if you do may I use them in a news post for InfoQ? Cheers Mark ... -- Cheers Mark Levison Blog:...
Mark Levison
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Dec 14, 2008
6:45 pm

Both burn down charts blogged about here... http://agile-blogs.com/agile-coaching/making-your-burn-down-chart-do-more/ cheers mike ...
Mike Sutton
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Dec 15, 2008
12:02 am

I notice that there are quite a few stickers on the burn charts. For a retrospective, I'd typically like there to be a lot more stickers, to get a more...
Ilja Preuß
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Dec 15, 2008
2:42 pm

I can see where you are coming from with your comments and I thought there might be a risk of your fears, but I coached the facilitation of the first...
Mike Sutton
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Dec 15, 2008
9:13 pm

Oh, yes - if this isn't your only activity to gather data about the iteration - or not even your main one - I can easily see that fact addressing my fears. :) ...
Ilja Preuß
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Dec 15, 2008
9:27 pm

oh, and you can use them InfoQ, Mark - cheers Mike ... a news ... scrumdevelopment@yahoogroups.com<scrumdevelopment%40yahoogroups.com>, ... visualizing the ......
Mike Sutton
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Dec 15, 2008
12:03 am

Thank you all for your feedback. - @Joakim: Running out of space could easily happen. Fortunately you can just stick the notes everywhere as the chart itself...
jofireball
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Dec 15, 2008
11:10 pm

... try. ... appreciated. ... The space problem is easily resolved. Take the picture (or electronic version) of the burndown and project on the wall or use a...
MacKilby
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Dec 29, 2008
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