Category Archives: Projects

Christmas themed retrospective 2016

Posted on December 23, 2016 by jayhyett

Over the past few years I’ve run a Christmas themed retrospective when we reach the final sprint of the year. This year I’m working across a number of small teams in a program so we had to scale the Christmas … Continue reading →

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Preparing for our next Inspect and Adapt using the Sails and Anchors Retrospective Format

Posted on August 18, 2016 by jayhyett

In a few weeks time I’m facilitating a program level retrospective (Inspect and Adapt) with around 60-80 people invited to attend. I’m planning to use the Sails and Anchors format by splitting the room into small focus groups (max 10 … Continue reading →

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Christmas Tree Retrospective 2015

Posted on December 22, 2015 by jayhyett

Last Friday we had our final team retrospective for 2015 and given that it’s the festive season we thought it was only fitting to go with a festive theme (similar to last year). How did it work I started off … Continue reading →

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One Last Word

Posted on November 30, 2015 by jayhyett

In my last post I wrote about a check-in activity that I’ve been running with my teams recently called One Word. Over the past few weeks this activity has continued to work really well at the start of our retrospectives. … Continue reading →

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Australian Rules Football Themed Retrospective 

Posted on September 22, 2015 by jayhyett

Its currently the business end of the AFL season (Australian Rules Football) with the Preliminary Finals set to take place this weekend. The winners of those games will face off in the Australian version of the SuperBowl – the AFL … Continue reading →

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Pitfall Themed Retrospective

Posted on August 23, 2015 by jayhyett

Do you remember the classic 80’s video game Pitfall? Pitfall was released by Activision in 1982 and is one of the all time highest selling game for the Atari 2600, amassing over 4 millions copies sold. The Atari 2600 was … Continue reading →

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Ice Hockey Themed Retrospective

Posted on August 15, 2015 by jayhyett

Yesterday we had our team retrospective and we were lucky enough to have our Head of Technology join us which was fantastic. Claudia is a Canadian and as most of the people from that part of the world she is … Continue reading →

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Cricket Themed Retrospective Revisited

Posted on August 5, 2015 by jayhyett

I was thinking of a different themed retrospective for one of the teams I’ve been working with recently. We’ve been together for roughly three months and majority of the retrospectives we’ve had have been following the what’s working, what’s not … Continue reading →

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Brief thought on adopting the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Posted on July 29, 2015 by jayhyett

Tonight we hosted the Melbourne Agile and Scrum meetup at our office with the theme being reflections on the Agile Australia 2015 conference. The concept was open space  which allowed everyone to self organise into groups and for the conversation to flow … Continue reading →

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Submarine Themed Retrospective

Posted on July 11, 2015 by jayhyett

Agile Australia was a couple of weeks ago and one of the key note speakers was David Marquet. David is a retired U.S. Navel Captain of the nuclear powered submarine the USS Santa Fe and the author of the Turn … Continue reading →

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