Comments on: The 4L’s: A Retrospective Technique

By: Facilitation Toolkit: Activities for Opening | Facilitating Agility

Facilitation Toolkit: Activities for Opening | Facilitating Agility — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:36:14 +0000

[...] Liked / Lacked / Learned / Longed For – Clarifies current status and indicates areas of growth that are beginning to develop [...]

By: Terry Wiegmann

Terry Wiegmann — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:29:23 +0000

My team just tried a variation of Ellen Gottesdiener & Mary Gorman’s 4Ls retro
that was fun.

For what we Learned, we used a witch’s caldron
For what we Like, we used a bowl of trick or treat candy
For what we want to Lose, we used a coffin with an RIP headstone
For what we Long for, we used the Great Pumpkin from Charlie Brown

We held this retro offsite at a coffee shop, so, alas, didn’t have physical
props, but 4 images that we placed item cards on. We have used 4 Ls before so
the technique was familiar; applying a seasonal theme kept it fresh!

By: Admin

Admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:59:43 +0000

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By: » This could be real good aclairefication

» This could be real good aclairefication — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:20:51 +0000

[...] process. So I grabbed a promising technique from the Agile Retrospective Resource Wiki called the Four L’s, which Mary Gorman and Ellen Gottesdiener of EBG Consulting developed as a variation of the World [...]

By: Review of ITMPI Webinar: Social Media and Corporate Productivity | CAI University Blog

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:11:59 +0000

[...] to share my experience with this webinar, and I couldn’t think of a better way than utilizing the 4 L retrospective technique that Ellen Gottesdiener discussed on her blog: Liked, Learned, Lacked, Longed [...]

By: Rob Bowley

Rob Bowley — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:27:03 +0000

I’ve posted your retrospective plan on the Agile Retrospective Resource wiki (and credited). Hope you don’t mind but if you do please let me know and I’ll remove it.

Rob

By: Retrospectives: The 4 L’s Retrospective at Mark Needham

Retrospectives: The 4 L’s Retrospective at Mark Needham — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:01:12 +0000

[...] facilitated the latest retrospective my team had last week and decided to try The 4 L’s technique which I’d come across while browsing the ‘retrospectives’ tag on [...]

By: Reinvigorated Retrospectives | agileManiac

Reinvigorated Retrospectives | agileManiac — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:24:57 +0000

[...] The 4L’s is a retrospective technique put forth by Mary Gorman and Ellen Gottesdiener. Teams like this format in that it’s quick and forces all parties in the room to interact. The 4L’s are: Liked, Learned, Lacked, and Longed For. As you can see, the 4L’s give people a simple area to focus their thoughts that can easily be translated into issues and or stories for the backlog. Here’s how it works (taken straight from Mary’s and Ellen’s Blog): [...]

By: Partnership & Possibilities » Blog Archive » Retrospective Short Subjects II

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:49:53 +0000

[...] Liked/Lacked/Longed For From the Deep Agile conference in Boston, Tobias Mayer used Twitter to highlight this variation. He tweeted, “#deepagile bringing poetry into retrospectives… liked, lacked, longed for.” I think of this as the Jane Austen version of Short Subjects. I look forward to bringing it to a team that has just experienced a difficult or poignant iteration or retrospective. (Late breaking news: Ellen Gottesdiener tells me that Mary Gorman was the person who introduced LLL at Deep Agile. Thanks, Mary!) (Even later breaking news: Ellen and Mary give a fuller description of their 4L’s activity.) [...]

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Tweets that mention The 4L’s: A Retrospective Technique -- Topsy.com — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:03:17 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by ellen gottesdiener, ellen gottesdiener. ellen gottesdiener said: posted: (origin of #LLL) w @mbgorman http://bit.ly/4Lretro "4L's #Retrospective Technique" #agile #baot #agilepm #agilepm [...]