Comments on: A New Take on the Hot Air Balloon Retrospective http://sarahtaraporewalla.com/thoughts/agile/a-new-take-on-the-hot-air-balloon-retrospective/ Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:50:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Sarah Taraporewalla’s Technical Ramblings » I don’t believe in signing up to stories for an iteration http://sarahtaraporewalla.com/thoughts/agile/a-new-take-on-the-hot-air-balloon-retrospective/comment-page-1/#comment-413 Sarah Taraporewalla’s Technical Ramblings » I don’t believe in signing up to stories for an iteration Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:23:19 +0000 http://sarahtaraporewalla.com/thoughts/?p=132#comment-413 [...] A retrospective as I detailed here may help in this [...] [...] A retrospective as I detailed here may help in this [...]

]]> By: Adrian http://sarahtaraporewalla.com/thoughts/agile/a-new-take-on-the-hot-air-balloon-retrospective/comment-page-1/#comment-321 Adrian Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:40:16 +0000 http://sarahtaraporewalla.com/thoughts/?p=132#comment-321 Thanks for posting this Sarah. I really like the idea of focusing on the stories as fodder for the feedback. I'll be trying this in my next retrospective. Thanks for posting this Sarah. I really like the idea of focusing on the stories as fodder for the feedback. I’ll be trying this in my next retrospective.

]]> By: Esther Derby http://sarahtaraporewalla.com/thoughts/agile/a-new-take-on-the-hot-air-balloon-retrospective/comment-page-1/#comment-320 Esther Derby Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:10:09 +0000 http://sarahtaraporewalla.com/thoughts/?p=132#comment-320 I like your hot air balloon exercise...reminds me of a variation Jean Tabaka uses with a sail boat as the metaphor (what puts wind in our sails, what causes us to be caught in the doldrums). I suspect that one factor in the shift you experienced in your latest retrospective was using a time line and collecting significant data about defects, events etc. around each story. I find that teams are more likely to have some real insight when they start with data rather than just listing "what did we do well" etc. I'm not a big fan of iteration retrospectives that just ask those 3-4 questions, either. They're superficial and don't lead to shared insight or team buy-in to make improvements. Cheers! Esther Derby (co-author, Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great) I like your hot air balloon exercise…reminds me of a variation Jean Tabaka uses with a sail boat as the metaphor (what puts wind in our sails, what causes us to be caught in the doldrums).

I suspect that one factor in the shift you experienced in your latest retrospective was using a time line and collecting significant data about defects, events etc. around each story.

I find that teams are more likely to have some real insight when they start with data rather than just listing “what did we do well” etc.

I’m not a big fan of iteration retrospectives that just ask those 3-4 questions, either. They’re superficial and don’t lead to shared insight or team buy-in to make improvements.

Cheers!

Esther Derby (co-author, Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great)

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