"Back to values" agile retrospective format
A week ago i proposed to my team a new format for the weekly retrospective. I called it "Back to values" because the starting focus is on values and then on practices and actions to improve that practices. Step 1: the values I put on the wall seven big post-its with the values, on the pink post-its the eXtreme Programming values plus the team's values on the orange post-its. simplicity (XP) communication (XP) feedback (XP) courage (XP) respect (XP) trust (team) sharing (team) Each teammate has an up arrow and a down arrow and I asked them to vote the best performing value of the week and the worst performing one. At the end of the vote we chose the two most rated values (no matter if with down or up arrow). In our case the chose values was communication and sharing. Step 2: the practices For each of the two chose values (one at a time), I asked the team to write on post-its all practices that support this value, both if they had used them and if...
