Abstract
Retrospectives are a good way of improving individual agile teams. What if you want to go beyond single team learning to multiple team learning? How can agile teams meaningfully share experiences?
In this workshop participants will learn how to create a shared meaning about different ways of putting Agile into practice. From a body of anecdotal material that participants bring to the workshop we will construct archetypes.
Knowledge of these archetypes helps teams and organisations to better transition to agile practices, asses their Agile practices and scale Agile in the enterprise.
Objective(s) of the session
- Help participants to understand their differing ways of working
- Participants may use archetypes that result from the workshop to find meaningful analogies to situations they are facing in their own working environment
- Provide a workshop format to the participants that they can use to understand the different ways of working in their own working environment
Format and length
Formats can include presentations, simulations, games, workshops, open space...
Format: Workshop based on Cognitive edge's Social Construction of Emergent Properties workshop (http://www.cognitive-edge.com/method.php?mid=42)
Length: 2 hours
Organizer(s) and contact information
provide name, e-mail and a brief biography of the presenter(s)
Wim Bollen (Prosource)
Wim is a senior project & process improvement coach with 10 years of experience in software environments (development, analysis, project management). In his current role he coaches project organizations in adopting agile practices. He has graduated in Information Technology. He is Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner, ITIL certified, Prince2 practitioner and an SEI trained CMMI specialist. Since 2003, he is involved in Process Improvement Teams (member, manager).
Email: wim.bollen@prosource.be
Patrick Steyaert (Prosource)
Patrick Steyaert (patrick.steyaert@prosource.be) is a Prosource Partner and Director of Assessments & Improvements. He is responsible for appraising the maturity of software processes of software organisations and for providing coaching on software process improvement programmes. He is an SEI trained CMMI specialist with more than 10 years of experience in software management of product as well as project development. He is a cogntive edge practitioner and a Certified ScrumMaster and has helped set up several agile software development teams.
Email: patrick.steyaert@prosource.be
Process and timetable
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| Step | Description | Timetable |
| 0 |
Introduction |
20' |
| 1 |
Anecdote circle: Scrum & xp anecdotes |
20' |
| 2 |
Stereotype collection:
- Based on some anecdotes and identification of meaningful items
- Cluster into stereotypes
|
20' |
| 3 |
Stereotype description: describe the polar opposites for each stereotype |
20' |
| 4 |
- Attribute clustering: re-cluster the polar opposites into archetypes
- Wrap up
|
30' |
| 5 |
Workshop retrospective |
10' |
Depending on the number of participants, the workshop will be run in sub-groups that will report to the other group(s).
Intended audience and prerequisites
who will benefit from this session? Do you expect them to have certain knowledge or experience? Have a look at the Personas to get ideas about what participants want out of XP Days
This session is aimed at participants who have sufficient experience with Agile to contribute anecdotes about differing ways of working with Agile and are eager to learn from the annecdotes of others.
- Leo will bring a lot of anecdotes, he will go home with a format which he can use to have teams learn from each other
- Bram will help to give meaning to anecdotes and will go home with new ideas to improve
- Georges will learn from the anecdotes of the other participants and goes home with an understanding of the different ways of working with agile
- Ellen will bring a lot of anecdotes of the teams she has been coaching and will go back with archetypes that will help here to find meaningful analogies to situations she is facing in the teams she is coaching
What do the presenters expect to learn from the session?
- Discover archetypes
- Confirm yet identified archetypes
- Prove usability workshop in a heterogenic group
