Team Radar Retrospective - Tips & Tricks

Preparation

• Agenda with a team radar (spider net) example, to describe the method
• A wall / flipchart for the team radar with a central point and four pre-drawn arrows in the four cardinal directions. (A paper flipchart is ideal, because you can simply count ten squares to draw each scale from 0-10)
  • Improvement: Draw eight arrows in advance
• Post-Its, markers
• Tape (for the flipchart and the agenda)

Set the stage

Your choice

Gather Data (15-30 minutes)

• Collect "attributes for effective work in a Scrum team"
  • Pick a general topic for the attributes
• Whole Team, one team member writes the attributes on Post-Its
• Find 5-8 attributes, reduce attributes with Dot-Voting if needed
• Draw the additional direction arrows
• Let every team member vote (draw a stroke on the scale from 0-10) for each attribute
  • Improvement: Reach independency of votes, e.g. collect individual votes on Post-Its and draw them together with a team member
• Draw the spider net (ask the team which point to use, e.g. low, high, middle, median)
  • Tipp: draw a circle around the votes to visualize spread
  • Suggestion: Use the most inner point for the spider net

Generate Insights (20-30 minutes)

• Open discussion with a short timebox: "What catches your eye?" Lead the discussion to "interesting findings", e.g. spread, outliers, high or low votes,
  • Issue: Depending on the question or the participants, this could immediately lead to deep analysis. You may have to adapt the further agenda then
• Identify with the team topics to analyze further (totally dependent on the wish of the team, this might be DoT Voting)
• Use pairs/small team to create ideas for measures, Then merge the ideas in the whole group
  • Tipp: visualize them next to the attribute on the team radar
  • Issue: How to get "good" measures? This is an area for further improvement.

Decide what to do (5-10 minutes)

• If you have several measures, simply do a Dot-Voting and let the team pick the top 1-3 measures "As a team, we want to try next sprint:".
  • Improvement: You may rewrite the measure to fulfill the SMART-criteria
• Let the team decide on an owner for each measure "Who cares for it next Sprint"
  • Alternative: The teams puts the tasks on the board
  • Improvement. Add a hypothesis (what you want to achieve) to each measure.

Close

Your choice