{"id":531,"date":"2013-10-10T12:33:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T12:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/?p=531"},"modified":"2013-10-10T19:29:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T19:29:47","slug":"september-2013-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/agile\/september-2013-retrospective\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2013 – Retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mind Map (click for full size)<\/p><\/div>\n

Following some discussion on the Google Groups, and offline, we decided to do an ad-hoc group retrospective during Septembers meet up. We didn’t follow the normal retro questions – what’s gone well, what can be improved etc.<\/p>\n

Rather, we brainstormed future session ideas, tabled the possibility of changing venues. We’ve been challenged on how to attract new members and speakers and pondered the symbiotic relationships between them.<\/p>\n

We’re currently moving all the great ideas from a mind map into two Trello hosted kanban boards<\/a>. The key areas discovered were future sessions and marketing – you will find a board for each area. If you would like to contribute to the boards, simply let myself or Neil know your Trello username and you’ll be added.<\/p>\n

In particular, we’re moving back to basics with subject matter – more TDD, more pairing. In particular, more sessions on experiences – how agile does \/ doesn’t work. However learning evolves etc. Also, more lightning talks etc to promote collaboration and introducing new ideas.<\/p>\n

As a tactical move to promote Agile Staffordshire at other community events, Neil and myself are sorting t-shirts to wear at Software Craftsmanship<\/a>. Neil – order me a large!!<\/p>\n

Finally we plan to get blog posts out earlier, with a session follow up post each month followed soon after by a post promoting the next session. We need to increase the volume and always welcome new members.<\/p>\n

Regards,
\nPaul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following some discussion on the Google Groups, and offline, we decided to do an ad-hoc group retrospective during Septembers meet up. We didn’t follow the normal retro questions – what’s gone well, what can be improved etc. Rather, we brainstormed future session ideas, tabled the possibility of changing venues. We’ve been challenged on how to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3,5,28,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r37M-8z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilestaffordshire.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}