Valuable Retrospectives
We often curse meetings, poorly designed or facilitated retrospectives seem to simply drain people's energy without delivering any meaningful output.
This workshop will explore what makes a great retrospective, furnish you with the beginnings of a great toolbox, and take everyone through a full retrospective delivered over the course of the talk.
As a group, we'll explore the flow of retrospectives, highlighting and using useful tools that can be used in different parts of the process. This won't be exhaustive, but everyone should leave with a few extra things in their box.
While there will be slides, everyone will form themselves into groups, and will then actively participate in a full-scale retrospective example, where we will explore our relationship with meetings at our place of work. The aim is to deliver a fully interactive workshop, where everyone learns about the subject by actually doing it. The activities are carefully spaced over the talk and immediately follow the relevant learning sections.
While this talk will furnish everyone with a few example structures, the main purpose is to teach how to structure your own. Everyone should leave with the ability to build their own retrospectives from scratch, pulling in influence from what's happening within the team at that time.
Sean Robinson , DevOps Group
Having worked as an engineer, Scrum Master and Product Owner, I now consult on Agile adoption and digital strategy on behalf of DevOps Group.
I have a passion for systems thinking, queuing theory, theory of constraints, lean leadership and modern motivational theory; plus anything else that tells me why we do what we do. I love developing process and strategy, but nowhere near as much as i like working with people to help them develop themselves. As a coach, my primary passion will always be for helping people.