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A question to ask in a sprint retrospective

published December 15, 2009

“What should we do differently during the next sprint?”. That was the way I opened our retrospective on Friday. No one answered. Hmm, everything is as good as it gets, case closed, Right? Wrong, you should dig deeper.  “Ok, name one thing that you will not want to do during our next sprint”. This one sunk in.  Answers and corresponding actions were:

• Team member 1: “I do not want to do software development” (this was a joke, but we decided to take action) = Ok, you will be working as a temporary Scrum Master for the first week of the next sprint.
• Team member 2: “I do not want to fix so many selenium tests at the end of the sprint” = Great, we will fix all tests first thing every morning.
• Team member 3: “I do not want to do as much bug fixing, testing and deployment as I did in this sprint” = We will have to find a way for you to make more new features.
• Team member 4: “I do not want to code javascript in the next sprint, but if I have to then I guess I must” = Sometimes you just have to :)

And now during first week I will be doing development and first task is building of a Liferay community  POC, sweet.

Samuli @ 21:52 (No Comments)

tags: Retrospective, Scrum

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