Satisfaction Histogram Retrospective ⋆ JEDISQUAD

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Are you willing to practice an Agile Retrospective and felt the need of making things differently this time ?

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We’re gonna talk about a useful Retrospective practice called “The Satisfaction histogram”. This practice is taking place at any Agile Retrospective per example at The Scrum Retrospective.

It is very useful at the end of every Sprint Retrospective since it give an opportunity for the Scrum team to inspect last sprint’s activity, to identify and order improved items and finally to create a plan that improves next sprint’s activity.

The satisfaction histogram highlights, using great visuals (like Radar Graphs), the Teamwork satisfaction levels of each Agile Team member. This practice is more interesting when used at tracking the progress in future iterations.

5 Phases of the retrospective

Setting the Stage: It’s generally ice breakers and warmup activities for the Agile Team members.
Gathering Data: While letting the Agile Team members express themselves freely on different activities.
Generating Insights: Based on the gathered data, it will certainly lead to useful interpretations.
Decide what to do: Identifying actionable steps that the Agile Team could take during the next sprints.
Close the retrospective: Always trying to get a positive feedback from the Agile Team members, it helps a lot to move forward.

The Satisfaction Histogram Steps

Preparation: choosing 3 to 5 topics(behaviors, practices, ideas…) to discuss between the Agile Team members.
Drawing satisfaction histogram: drawing an axis(or a checkbox) for each topic, on a scale of 1 to 5 or 10
Explaining the topics: to the Agile Team members and let them have marked for each topic
Grade: every Agile Team member have to stick a note or mark his satisfaction by checking the histogram box.
Discussion: when everyone is done marking, the Agile Team should discuss the results and discover the WHYs
Identifying corrective actions: is the last step, done by everyone.

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Satisfaction Histogram Retrospective

5 Phases of the retrospective

The Satisfaction Histogram Steps

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