Tout ce que vous devez savoir sur les futurespectives

What is a futurespective?

A futurespective is a process agile teams can undertake at the start of a project. They help teams to shape a high-level strategy that supports the smooth delivery of their goal.

During a futurespective a team will consider the project within the context of things such as –

• the skills, expertise and experience of the team members
• the resources they can access
• the risks and obstacles they may encounter, and
• the parameters within which they must work

in order to produce

• a shared understanding of the project trajectory, and
• confirm the first steps the team needs to take to get started.

While futurespectives and retrospectives follow pretty similar processes, they differ in a couple of important ways –

• a retrospective looks back over a short period of time to review what happened. This is done so as to inform the team’s next steps.
• a futurespective considers the whole project in order to anticipate what may happen. This is done to shape a project strategy and the first few steps needed to start the project.

Il existe deux raisons principales pour lesquelles un Scrum Master peut organiser une futurespective. The first is to kick start a new project, and the second is to restart an existing one.

A futurespective gives a team a chance to create and grow the connections that are important for team health. They are an opportunity to team build: the perfect time to explore your team’s motivations and fears, and share how members have worked well in the past. Cela présente un Scrum Master avec –

• valuable insight into how they can best support their team, and
• the chance to start important conversations such as dealing with unpredictability.

Additionally, they help the team build a vision and purpose. It’s no surprise then that futurespectives are a wonderful way to align newly formed teams or check the calibration of established ones.

When it comes to the project, a futurespective is a brilliant planning mechanism. They can be used to identify things such as –

• areas of concern or perceived risks
• resources and tools needed
• gaps in the team.

This means shaping solutions to address such hurdles can start sooner than later.

A futurespective can also be used to set the tone for a project. C’est pourquoi les Scrum Masters peuvent également utiliser la futurespective pour –

• include a warm up or icebreaker
• draw upon Larson’s Circles and Soup
• set SMART goals, and
• add to team agreements

Importantly, futurespectives ensure that at the start of the project, all team members are on the same page.

Futurespectives are also a great way to restart a stalled or stuck project. They can help reenergize an unmotivated team, shake up the repetition of retrospectives, and help a team revisit their goals.

A prime directive is popularly understood to be a guiding principle. Although it’s possible to find a number of Futurespective Prime Directives, Caroli and Caetano’s version is the one most widely cited.

Soutenue par le Manifeste Agile, et comme la Directive Première de la Rétrospective qu’elle complète, la Directive Première de la Futurespective de Caroli et Caetano est un état d’esprit. It aims to foster a positive, collaborative context within which a team can deliver the best possible outcomes.

The Directive sets an optimistic tone. It reinforces the importance of the involvement of the whole team and the shared ownership of the team’s vision of the future. For it to be most effective, the team must feel psychologically safe. After all, trying to predict the future is a big ask! The safer the team feels, the more ideas they will be comfortable to offer.

There are currently two main approaches as to how to run a futurespective.

1. Consider the project as if it has been delivered
2. View the project as if it is to be delivered

The first approach has participants imagining they are their future selves looking back at the project that has been successfully finished. This approach has participants imagining they are thinking back on all of the goals they have delivered and how they did so. They (creatively) reminisce about the things that went well, the hurdles they encountered, and how they overcame them. They are effectively doing a retrospective in the future (so, a futurespective).

It’s possible for the team to have a great deal of fun with this approach. An end of project lunch could be held during the futurespective. A warm up can include reference to what their future selves did in the past year of which they are most proud, or the latest (future) trend or (future) film can be discussed.

The second approach is a little more straightforward. Participants are invited to look ahead and offer their perspective of what the future has in store (so again, a futurespective). This approach is possibly better suited to a team who are new to agile, or simply less comfortable with the other.

Regardless of which vantage point your team prefers to adopt for their futurespective, the purpose and the process remain the same.

The five steps of a retrospective can be applied to a futurespective. The important thing to keep in view is the different mindset that is to be adopted.

Here are our top three futurespectives to help get you started.

The State of Nirvana futurespective sees team members define their version of nirvana. Ils définissent ce qu’ils s’attendent à avoir réalisé d’ici le premier, troisième, sixième et dixième mois, avec les idées qu’ils partagent, construisant un aperçu de leur voie à suivre. En savoir plus sur la futurespective État de Nirvana.

The PMI Futurespective helps a team view a topic from multiple perspectives. Cela garantit qu’une vue d’ensemble du projet est prise en compte, car les membres de l’équipe ne peuvent pas rejeter la variété des contributions qu’ils ont eux-mêmes rassemblées. En savoir plus sur Plus, Moins, Intéressant (PMI).

Futurespective SCOR

The SCOR Futurespective is a reimagining of the SWOT Analysis to include team empowerment. Weaknesses reframed as challenges and participants identify risks rather than threats. De cette façon, les participants les considèrent comme moins inquiétantes et donc plus gérables. En savoir plus sur la futurespective SCOR.