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Improve your Sprint retrospectives: Use the burn down chart as a guideline

26 November 2009 594 views One Comment

A couple of weeks ago I discussed a way to run Sprint retrospectives with the scrumdevelopment user group on Yahoo. I proposed to use the recent Sprint burn down chart during the Sprint retrospective as a guideline for the team: Instead of putting sticky notes with significant events on a rather abstract timeline representing the Sprint we put them directly on the respective Sprint burndown chart.

Story telling on a Sprint Burn Down chart

Story telling on a Sprint Burn Down chart

If you would like to know more, you may find a summary of the discussion on InfoQ: Tips to Improve Retrospectives.

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  • Kai said:

    This is a great way of setting the context for a Sprint retrospective. I suggest changing the way of doing retrospectives every now and then to prevent routine from setting in. Br, Kai

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