A night at the Story Oscars
A great Sprint Retrospective, an emotional ice breaker, Liberating Structures and coaching focused around User Stories.
This article is part of a series of Sprint Retrospective stories. Each story will walk you through the steps, my audience for the original posts were the organisation I was working with at the time. Keeping it straightforward with no fluffy edges. Each story is the write up of a real Sprint Retrospective that I’ve ran with one of my teams. I’ve removed reference to names and blurred faces where needed.
The team have had a lot of external interruptions recently. We even had to cancel Sprint 10 (insert sad emoji), so there was no shortage of discussions in our Sprint 11 Retrospective. We found it would be beneficial to focus this Retrospective entirely on our User Stories.
As always the best way to kick off a Retrospective is with an ice-breaker. This allows the team to start divergent thinking and it sets them up on the right path for the remaining time.
The team were asked to choose a playing card that best represents how they feel about the previous Sprint. What relates to them the most out of all the cards available. The cards themselves are different to normal playing cards. Each card has a different emoji on the front…
