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how_do_we_get_away_from_business_as_usual_thinking_on_teams [2019/01/22 18:52] – [Want To Know More?] hpsamioshow_do_we_get_away_from_business_as_usual_thinking_on_teams [2023/03/10 07:04] (current) – Added how to hans
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-====== How Do We Get Away from “Business as Usual” Thinking On Teams ======+====== How Do We Get Away from “Business as Usual” Thinking On Teams======
  
-====== Premise ======+Or “How do we have a proactive (as opposed to reactive) retrospective?
  
 Or “How do we increase the effectiveness of the Retrospective? Or “How do we increase the effectiveness of the Retrospective?
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 +Or "How do we stop fluffy retrospectives?"
  
 We’ve kicked off the Teams (and Trains) in their new alignment with the expectation that they will work to improve the flow of value based on the value streams identified. Instead, what we find is that in an effort to get control of the work, the Teams stay very much in a “business as usual” mode. Some of this is caused by falling back into old habits (“I know how to do this work in the ticketing system”). Some of this is caused by a lack of direction from leadership (“We don’t have the Features coming in to the Teams that reflect the new, expected work”, or “We have not talked about how much capacity we want to be allocated to new work versus the ticketing system and what the leadership is going to do to help protect the Teams from using more of their capacity for ticketing items”). We’ve kicked off the Teams (and Trains) in their new alignment with the expectation that they will work to improve the flow of value based on the value streams identified. Instead, what we find is that in an effort to get control of the work, the Teams stay very much in a “business as usual” mode. Some of this is caused by falling back into old habits (“I know how to do this work in the ticketing system”). Some of this is caused by a lack of direction from leadership (“We don’t have the Features coming in to the Teams that reflect the new, expected work”, or “We have not talked about how much capacity we want to be allocated to new work versus the ticketing system and what the leadership is going to do to help protect the Teams from using more of their capacity for ticketing items”).
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   * Impediment mining: Become more aware of recurring problems by looking through threads of messages in your email. Or perhaps look at the reasons you are having meetings. With “impediment mining” your email client can be a great source of potential problems with value delivery. Also look at your retrospectives over time. Do you see the same problems come up time and again. Perhaps you should do something about these?   * Impediment mining: Become more aware of recurring problems by looking through threads of messages in your email. Or perhaps look at the reasons you are having meetings. With “impediment mining” your email client can be a great source of potential problems with value delivery. Also look at your retrospectives over time. Do you see the same problems come up time and again. Perhaps you should do something about these?
  
-(Note: I am indebted to Tom Perry'"Little Book of Impediments" for this list.)+(Note: I am indebted to [[https://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Impediments-Thomas-Perry-ebook/dp/B01D8VYWZG|"Little Book of Impediments" by Tom Perry]] for this list.)
  
 In many ways, this thinking approach is really about increasingly seeing the whole system, seeing the Team’s part in that system, and seeing where the problems and impediments are. Once we have identified the problems, the usual Retrospective steps apply - root cause analysis, ideas to address, plan of action (including backlog items and experiment), then review results at next Retrospective. In many ways, this thinking approach is really about increasingly seeing the whole system, seeing the Team’s part in that system, and seeing where the problems and impediments are. Once we have identified the problems, the usual Retrospective steps apply - root cause analysis, ideas to address, plan of action (including backlog items and experiment), then review results at next Retrospective.
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 +As a side note, Teams that do this kind of retrospective will report that there is a big increase in the level of discussion and engagement from Team Members as they discuss what might be. And so while you might not do this type of retrospective every time, it can be used to really re-engage the Team in improving how they work.
  
 ====== Supporting Significant Change ====== ====== Supporting Significant Change ======
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 ====== Want To Know More? ====== ====== Want To Know More? ======
  
-  * [[how_do_we_run_our_first_sprint_retrospective|How Do We Run Our First Sprint (or Iteration) Retrospective?]]+  * [[how_do_we_run_our_first_sprint_retrospective|How Do We Run Our First Iteration (Sprint) Retrospective?]]
   * See [[https://www.amazon.com/Agile-Retrospectives-Making-Pragmatic-Programmers-ebook/dp/B00B03SRJW/|"Agile Retrospectives - Making Good Teams Great" by Esther Derby]]: for structure of the retrospective so that you are working real problems as well as activities to improve engagement.   * See [[https://www.amazon.com/Agile-Retrospectives-Making-Pragmatic-Programmers-ebook/dp/B00B03SRJW/|"Agile Retrospectives - Making Good Teams Great" by Esther Derby]]: for structure of the retrospective so that you are working real problems as well as activities to improve engagement.
 +  * [[how_do_we_setup_an_organizational_impediment_removal_system_ssa|How Do We Setup An Organizational Impediment Removal System? - SSA]]
   * See [[https://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Impediments-Thomas-Perry-ebook/dp/B01D8VYWZG|"Little Book of Impediments" by Tom Perry]]: for more on working a proactive retrospective   * See [[https://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Impediments-Thomas-Perry-ebook/dp/B01D8VYWZG|"Little Book of Impediments" by Tom Perry]]: for more on working a proactive retrospective
  
 {{tag>FAQ Retrospective Improvement}} {{tag>FAQ Retrospective Improvement}}
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