Offshore & Remote Retrospectives

[Todd Gardner]

I'm looking for some practical advice. I need to start up some retrospectives for offshore and remote teams and I lack experience there.

For colocated teams, I use a technique of brainstorming, mute mapping, categorizing problems, and then voting on what to fix; and I find that it brings out good perspective from the quieter members of the team and gives everyone an equal voice.

I need to help these remote teams get started. I'd love some practical examples or techniques you've used for conducting and growing distributed teams.

Best,

Todd

Todd H. Gardner

Founder, WocketWare

Software Craftsman; Developer Coach; Entrepreneur

[Peter Edstrom]

I've had some success setting up an http://www.ideaboardz.com ahead of time and then discussing the contents via webex. It allows voting, live updating, and nice export options for saving the content. I include the board url in the retrospective meeting invite and ask everyone to put a little thought into it before we discuss as a group. 

Peter Edstrom
612-594-0044

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[Kimberly Johnson]

Wow this IdeazBoard is way cool and thanks for sharing!

 

Creative regards,

 

Kim

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Creative regards,

 

Kim

[David Allen]

Is it safe to use? I wanted to login but it wants access to my google contacts. That does not sound like something I want to do. Seems creepy to me. 

David Allen

David Kreth Allen

612-374-1119

 

[Peter Edstrom]

I've never granted it that access. You can use the service w/o logging in. 

Peter

Peter Edstrom
612-594-0044

[Todd Gardner]

Thanks Peter! It looks pretty good, but I am concerned about access to my data :/

Best,

Todd Gardner

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Peter Edstrom <pe...@edstrom.net> wrote:

[David Allen]

If you like the IdeaBoardz concept but want security, try this out http://leankit.com/. It is amazingly powerful, even in the free version.

It was actually designed as a full-fledged backlog and task board management tool. But once I saw the example Peter showed us with IdeaBoards, I realized it could be used for retrospectives by configuring the columns to  "what went well" "what went poorly" and "action items" or whatever works for you.

THis is like IDeaBoardz only it's a much more mature product. And you could probably serve your needs with the free version, though paid versions exist. 

David Kreth Allen