Agile Retrospective Smells Cards

The Retrospective Smells Cards, a tool for anyone who facilitates agile retrospectives to recognize smells and solve problems or mitigate the impact.

For agile teams (co-located, distributed, and remote), Scrum masters, agile coaches, and consultants leading agile transformations.

These cards can be used to prevent or eliminate retrospective anti-patterns and deal with ineffective and counterproductive behavior that hampers the team.

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Format: PDF and jpeg files with images for cards with smells and antidotes
Language: English

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Retrospective Smells

In this post, I’ll explore why retrospective facilitators need to know about retrospective smells and how they can deal with them.

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Retrospective Smells: Blaming

Blaming is a “retrospective smell”, a signal that something might be going wrong in your retrospective that needs attention. In this second post in the series Retrospective Smells I’ll explore how blaming can happen and what can be done to reduce or prevent it.

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Retrospective Smells: Passiveness

Passiveness is a “retrospective smell”, a signal that something is going wrong in your retrospective that needs attention. In this first article in the series on retrospectives smells, I’ll explore how to recognize passiveness and provide suggestions for dealing with it.

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