The twelveth Hands-on Agile meetup continues exploring Liberating Structures for Scrum events. Liberating Structures cover a set of easy to learn, yet powerful ways to collaborate as a team—even as a large team—, overcoming traditional communications approaches like presentations, managed discussions, or another disorganized brainstorming where the loudest participants tend to prevail. Throughout the coming months, we will create exciting new ways how to improve classic Scrum events like the Daily Scrum, the Sprint Review or the Sprint Retrospective. Moreover, we will use Liberating Structures for difficult challenges that agile coaches, Scrum Masters, and Product Owners face, for example, reviewing the existing product design process. This second meetup of the “Liberating Structures for Scrum” series will address the Sprint Retrospective.

2. #1
• Team up in pairs
• Introduce yourself briefly to each other
• Share your take on the question:
“What challenges do you bring to this meetup, what can you give
to your peers, and what do you hope to take away in return?”
• Time-box: 3 minutes.
• Choose another partner when you hear “Move on.”

3. #2
Last Time, we explored five Liberating Structures microstructures:
• Impromptu Networking
• TRIZ
• 1-2-4-All
• 15% Solutions
• Shift & Share

4. #3a
Let’s Solve a Big Problem Tonight—Berlin’s Public Transport
Please gather in four groups and discuss:
What happened in the past that impeded public transport?
[Use 1-2-4-All for this.]
[10 minutes]

5. #3b
Let’s Solve a Big Problem Tonight—Berlin’s Public Transport
Round #2—continue the discussion:
So what patterns are emerging?
[Use 1-2-4-All for this.]
[10 minutes]

6. #3c
Let’s Solve a Big Problem Tonight—Berlin’s Public Transport
Round #3—close the discussion:
Now what actions would make sense?
[Use 1-2-4-All for this.]
[10 minutes]

7. #4a
Your One Shot to Fix Berlin’s Public Transport—
What Would it Be?
• Grab one of the print-outs.
• Put your best idea in the field labeled “Your idea.”
• Fold the paper in the middle.

8. #4b
Your One Shot to Fix Berlin’s Public Transport—
What Would it Be?
<five-times>
• Swap your paper randomly with other folks while the music plays.
• When the music stops playing, vote with 1 to 5 points on the idea you’re looking at.
• Fold the paper to hide your vote for the next voting round.
</five-times>
Count the number of votes — it should be five, and its sum should not exceed 25.

9. #5
Warp-Up: What Micro Structures Have Been Used so far?
• Impromptu Networking
• 1-2-4-All
• 15% Solution
• Shift & Share
• TRIZ
• W3
• 25/10 Crowd Sourcing

10. #6
Create a Retrospective Format for MegaBrain.io
• Gather in four groups
• Study today’s business case. [5 minutes]
• Create a string of microstructures for the planned retrospective.
[Use 1-2-4-All] [15 minutes]
Use Shift & Share to pitch your retrospective string to your peers. [10
minutes in total]
Take your stand: which retrospective string would you choose?

11. Contact Information
Stefan Wolpers
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