Retrospectives for teams with multiple projects: Climbing the Mountains

Scrum is a powerful tool but is also a pain when you work in a team with multiple projects.

As a team with multiple projects, I mean a team where some of them are working on one projects, some of them on other etc.

In my case, I’m in a team between 5–9 people and 3–5 projects, each project has between 1–3 people involved at the same time.

And we are also part of a big team of around 15–20 people that is growing, from an office between 50–60 people and in a company between 200–300 and yes, growing.

But in this article, I want to talk about how I tried to have a more productive retrospective in the team (remember 5–9 people involved).

How did we deal with retrospectives before this?

We have tried a lot of different types of retrospectives, there are a lot and all of them are so interesting and sometimes funny.

Luckily, in our company we are always improving, giving feedback and trying to change the things when they don’t work, in this case, we feel like the retrospectives that we use are not super useful and productive as we need.

But why? Probably because, once you know the basics about what you need in…