The 16th Hands-on Agile meetup continues exploring Liberating Structures for Scrum events. This time, we address the Sprint Review. 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 at which 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.

2. #1
• Team up in pairs.
• One is talking; the other one is listening.
• Swap roles when you hear the gong.
• 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?”
• Choose another partner when you hear “move on.”
• Number of rounds: 3.
• ⏰ 5 minutes/round.

3. #2
Liberating Structures: Ecocycle Planning Co-developed by Keith McCandless + Henri Lipmanowicz (www.liberatingstructures.com) Creative Commons License
Who feels knowledgeable in
Liberating Structures?

4. #3
So far, we have explored eleven Liberating Structures microstructures:
• Impromptu Networking
• 1-2-4-All
• 15% Solution
• Shift & Share
• TRIZ
• W3
• 25/10 Crowd Sourcing
• Min Specs
• Ecocycle Planning
• Troika Consulting / Wise Crowds
• Discovery and Action Dialog (DAD)
Liberating Structures: Co-developed by Keith McCandless + Henri Lipmanowicz (www.liberatingstructures.com) Creative Commons License

5. #4
The Sprint Review
• “The Sprint Review is held at the end of the Sprint to inspect the product
Increment and adapt the Product Backlog if needed.”
• “During the Sprint Review, the Scrum Team and the stakeholders collaborate
about what was done in the Sprint.”
• “Based on that and any changes to the Product Backlog during the Sprint,
attendees collaborate on the next things that could be done to optimize value.”
• “This is an informal meeting, not a status meeting, and the presentation of the
Increment is intended to elicit feedback and foster collaboration.”
• “The result of the Sprint Review is a revised Product Backlog that defines the
probable Product Backlog items for the next Sprint.”
Source: Scrum Guide, 2017.

6. #5
Climate Change:
We experienced one of the hottest summers on
record.
How did you experience it,
and how did you manage to keep cool?

7. #6
User Experience Fishbowl
• Form one inner circle group of 3–7 people, for example, stakeholders.
• Form one outer circle in multiple small satellite groups of 3–4 people.
• Inner circle conversation goes on until it ends on its own. ⏰ 10 minutes.
• Satellite groups in outer circle formulate observations and questions. ⏰ 5 minutes.
• Questions submitted to the inner circle are answered. (Back-and-forth interaction.)
⏰ 10 minutes.
• Debrief using W3 and ask: “What seems possible now?” ⏰ 10 minutes.

8. #6
Climate Change:
The “Making Berlin cool again” initiative.

9. #8
Celebrity Interview
• As a group, identify an interviewer and a celebrity. ⏰ 3 minutes.
• Interviewer & celebrity agree on the goal of the climate change initiative. ⏰ 3 minutes.
• The interviewer welcomes the celebrity and introduces the objective for the upcoming
climate change initiative to be discussed. ⏰ 3 minutes.
• The interviewer asks questions the audience would expect to be asked. ⏰ 5 minutes.
• Invite the audience to generate additional questions. (User 1-2-4-All and stickies for this
purpose.) ⏰ 5 minutes.
• The interviewer browses the stickies, looking for patterns, and asks the celebrity.
⏰ 5 minutes.

10. #9
The LS Micro Structures We Have Used so far
• Impromptu Networking
• 1-2-4-All
• 15% Solution
• Shift & Share
• TRIZ
• W3
• 25/10 Crowd Sourcing
• Min Specs
• Ecocycle Planning
• Troika Consulting / Wise Crowds
• Discovery and Action Dialog (DAD)
• User Experience Fishbowl
• Celebrity Interview
Liberating Structures: Co-developed by Keith McCandless + Henri Lipmanowicz (www.liberatingstructures.com) Creative Commons License

11. #10
Liberating Structures: Ecocycle Planning Co-developed by Keith McCandless + Henri Lipmanowicz (www.liberatingstructures.com) Creative Commons License
The MegaBrain.io Case —
Help to Save a Startup

12. #11
Prepare an LS String for a Successful Sprint Review of the 3 Scrum Teams
• Gather in four groups
• Listen to MegaBrain.io’s business case. ⏰ 3 minutes.
• Create a string of LS microstructures to support the Scrum Teams’ Sprint Review:
• Use 1-2-4-All — first alone, then in pairs, then as two pairs, then as a group.
• ⏰ 15 minutes.
Use Shift & Share to pitch your group’s LS string to your peers. ⏰ 10 minutes.
Closing: Take your stand—which LS string would you choose?

13. #12

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16. Contact Information
Stefan Wolpers
Email: stefan@age-of-product.com
Blog: Age-of-Product.com
Company: Berlin Product People GmbH
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