Name: Balancing Act

Context: 
The retrospective group has people with different roles and responsibilites.

Forces: 
People tend to have experience in their own specialist role and have less understanding of what other project roles involve.

Problem: 
Things are working well for one set of roles so there is no awareness that their actions/processes maybe causing issues for others in the group.

Solution: 
Explore how people feel about the project from the perspective of the role they play. 
A variant of the "Emotional Seismograph" (Kerth 2001) technique can be used.
Invite participants to use a whiteboard to draw a graph of how they felt about the project over time, vertical axis :) to :( 
The variantion is to invite participants to use different colors for different roles  

Resulting Context: 
Understanding the consequences of our actions can refocus our efforts maintain a balance.

Contributor: Rachel Davies