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Is the Nexus Sprint Retrospective one or more meetings?

Last post 04:24 pm August 28, 2019 by Thomas Owens
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12:43 pm August 28, 2019

I was wondering whether technically the Nexus Sprint Retrospective can be seen as one big meeting to inspect and adapt how all teams work together, or as multiple ones:

The Nexus Guide defines the following:

1) Appropriate representatives from each Scrum Team meet to identify shared challenges.

2) Then, each Scrum Team holds individual Sprint Retrospectives.

3) Appropriate representatives from each team meet again to discuss any actions needed based on shared challenges to provide bottom-up intelligence

 

The following feels contradictory to me:

The following opts for a single meeting: Within the "Nexus Sprint Retrospective" session it sounds to me its one big meeting that consists of multiple parts because of "It consists of three parts".

The following opts for multiple meetings: Within the "Nexus Process Flow" section the term "each team meet again", and the fact that multiple teams have multiple meetings probably each in their own meeting in parallel.

Thanks in advance,

Paul


03:22 pm August 28, 2019

My advice is to think of each event less as a meeting and more as an opportunity to inspect and adapt.

In the case of a Nexus Sprint Retrospective, there is an opportunity for a Nexus of teams to inspect and adapt. To do so, each constituent Scrum Team in the Nexus would have to inspect and adapt in a co-ordinated manner.


04:24 pm August 28, 2019

I like to think of it as a conference, with multiple tracks. Things like keynotes are shared and open to all of the participants. The first portion of the Nexus Sprint Retrospective is like this, for members of the Scrum Teams within the Nexus. Then, in a conference, you'll have parallel tracks of talks and demonstrations and presentations where you can't go to all of them since they are concurrent. This is like the second portion - each Scrum Team has its own track, or Sprint Retrospective. At the end, there's another keynote where people come together.

It's not a perfect analogy, but I think it makes a lot of sense.


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