Description:In this talk, the speaker will present a brand new retrospective format quickly becoming popular in Japan. This method is heavily influenced by Japanese culture, but it may work great in other cultural contexts. We are looking for your feedback. Someone said Agile is not work in Asian Culture ( https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/06/agile-asia/ ). One of the difficulties is from retrospectives. We found a positive retrospective format better fit for our culture: Fun! Done! Learn! After we published the method in a blog in Japanese, many teams in Japan started using the method. We've not taught or facilitated directly; people just accepted and started using it.We'd like to share the method as well as how the teams accepted the technique in Japan. We are eager to hear from you whether this works for your team or not and why.

1. a positive retrospective born in Japan,
does this work in other cultures?
Yasunobu YesNo Kawaguchi

2. Yasunobu
Kawaguchi
Agile Coach: Tokyo based
Translator / Supervisor
Conference Organizer
Fearless ChangeUser Story Mapping Joy, inc. The Great ScrumMaster

3. Tokyo
Sapporo
Osaka
Mikawa
Scrum Gathering
Scrum Festand
in 2020 Japan
Jan.
Sep.
Jun.
Oct.
2020
2020
2020
2020

4. On Site Online

5. Scrum doesn’t work in Asia?

6. https://medium.com/@jpartogi/scrum-does-not-work-here-in-asia-72d7bccccb4d

7. Scrum doesn’t work in Asia?
Far East

8. https://medium.com/@jpartogi/scrum-does-not-work-here-in-asia-72d7bccccb4d
1: Everything in life should have a hierarchy
2: Let’s keep things in harmony
3: Different education system, different
school of thoughts
4: Outsourcing — everything comes down
to reducing costs

9. https://medium.com/@jpartogi/scrum-does-not-work-here-in-asia-72d7bccccb4d
1: Everything in life should have a hierarchy
2: Let’s keep things in harmony
3: Different education system, different
school of thoughts
4: Outsourcing — everything comes down
to reducing costs

10. 1: Everything in life should have a hierarchy
2: Let’s keep things in harmony
3: Different education system, different school of
thoughts
4: Outsourcing — everything comes down to
reducing costs

11. 1: Everything in life should have a hierarchy
2: Let’s keep things in harmony
3: Different education system, different school of
thoughts
4: Outsourcing — everything comes down to
reducing costs
hierarchy
Outsourcing
harmony

12. Outsourcing
harmony
ブラック企業
Evil Corporation
hierarchy

13. リーン生産方式
Lean Manufacturing
hierarchy
Outsourcing
harmony

14. Different Solution in Same Force

15. Hitoshi Yamada
Guru of Lean
Manufacturing
Apprentice of
Taichi Ohno, Toyota
ムダ取り

16. Hitoshi Yamada
働くことを喜びとする社員
を作らないといけない。
We need to create
employees who feel
joy of work.
“
”
ムダ取り
喜び
joy

17. 喜び
joy
Hitoshi Yamada
ムダ取り

18. 喜び
joy
Richard Sheridan

20. Hitoshi Yamada
自分で考え、自分で動く
社員を作る。
Create employees
who think and act
on their own.
“
”
ムダ取り
think and act

21. Hitoshi Yamada
Create employees
who think and act
on their own.
“
”
ムダ取り
think and act
Self Organization

22. Jeff Sutherland
Self Organization

24. Toyota Production
System
Lean
Lean Software
Development
Kanban
Lean Startup
Agile
Scrum
XP
The New New Product
Development Game
Four steps
to the epiphany
Agile and Lean
Startup
Patterns
Manufacturing Industry in Japan
2013 Yasunobu Kawaguchi

25. Scrum doesn’t work in Asia?
Far East

26. I hope to see more Agile
in Japan

27. I hope to see more Agile
in Japan
We need practices
fit in the force!

28. A common problem in
Retrospective in Japan is ..

29. A common problem in
Retrospective in Japan is ..
Kaizen! 改善Improvement

30. A common problem in
Retrospective in Japan is ..
We need
Action Plan!
改善
Kaizen! Kaizen!
Kaizen!

31. A common problem in
Retrospective in Japan is ..
- Negative
- Tired and boring
- Too many action plans

32. https://dzone.com/articles/running-positive-retrospective

33. https://dzone.com/articles/running-positive-retrospective
Positive
Retrospectives

34. "Regardless of what we discover,
we understand and truly believe that
everyone did the best job they could,
given what they knew at the time,
their skills and abilities,
the resources available,
and the situation at hand."
Norm Kerth's Prime Directive
Linda Rising

35. "Regardless of what we discover,
we understand and truly believe that
everyone did the best job they could,
given what they knew at the time,
their skills and abilities,
the resources available,
and the situation at hand."
Norm Kerth's Prime Directive
Linda Rising

36. The co-worker asks:
"I know you were on project [X],
how was that?".
Each person responds with
"It was great because...".
Instead of speaking the answers out
loud, give each person 3 index cards
and have them write their answers
down in silence.
User Story Mapping
Jeff Patton

37. The co-worker asks:
"I know you were on project [X],
how was that?".
Each person responds with
"It was great because...".
Instead of speaking the answers out
loud, give each person 3 index cards
and have them write their answers
down in silence.Jeff Patton
User Story Mapping

38. Let's remember.

39. 喜び
joy
Yamada

40. joy

41. Jeff Sutherland
Self Organization

42. joy
Self Organization

43. Linda Rising Jeff Patton
Positive

44. joy
Self Organization
Positive

45. joy
Self Organization
Positive

48. learn
fun
done

49. Just ask the
three questions.

50. What have
you done?

51. What made
you fun?

52. What did
you learn?

53. The co-worker asks:
"I know you were on project [X],
how was that?".
Each person responds with
"It was great because...".
Instead of speaking the answers out
loud, give each person 3 index cards
and have them write their answers
down in silence.
User Story Mapping
Jeff Patton

54. learn
fun
done

55. learn
fun
done
fun
done
and

56. learn
fun
done
fun
learn
and

57. learn
fun
donedone
and
learn

58. learn
fun
done
fun
done
and
and
learn

59. We found …
These are
the Facts

60. Done

61. Keep Positive
Gather Facts
and

62. Keep Positive
Gather Facts
and
then ideate!

63. Fun Done Learn
in Japan
has spread out
very fast!!

65. our instruction
without

66. learn
fun
done
What s going
in your culture?

67. Please let us know
#FunDoneLearn

68. a positive retrospective born in Japan,
does this work in other cultures?
Yasunobu YesNo Kawaguchi