5.3 Activity: Color Code Dots
Agile Retrospectives — by Esther Derby, Diana Larsen (31 / 72)
Published in
2 min readMar 23, 2022
👈 5.2 Activity: Triple Nickels | TOC | 5.4 Activity: Mad Sad Glad 👉
Use this in conjunction with a timeline to gather data about feelings in a longer iteration, release, or project retrospective.
Purpose
Show how people experienced events on the timeline.
Time Needed
Five to twenty minutes.
Description
Team members use sticky dots to show events on the timeline where emotions ran high or low.
Steps
After all the events are on the timeline and the team has done a quick review, individuals use colored dots to show where their energy was high or low (see Figure 8, A timeline with color-coded dots).
- Set up the activity by saying “Now that we’ve seen the facts, let’s see how it was to be doing this work.”
- Provide each individual with dots in two colors. Start with seven to ten dots per person but have more available. Explain which color indicates high energy and which indicates low energy.
- Ask each person to use the dots to show where energy was high and where energy was stalled, flagging, or at low ebb.
