Yesterday was World Retrospective Day. World Retrospective Day is a volunteer-based, globally coordinated effort to share in the power of retrospectives: https://worldretrospectiveday.com/. World retrospective day started… Read More »World Retrospective Day 2021
“Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time,… Read More »The Prime Directive
Agile retrospective experts David Horowitz, Diana Larsen, Esther Derby, Molood Ceccarelli, Paul Tevis, Jay-Allen Morris, and Kirsten Clacey gathered to share their insights on how to achieve effective retros amidst a sudden shift to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic
Here I was, full time scrum mastering! There was time to plan mindful retrospectives targeted on what the team needed, it was total bliss. I’d… Read More »Full Time Scrum Master experiment part 4 – Retrospectives!
This is a guest post by Eloise Pelser (@EloisePelser).Eloise sees herself as a survivor, mom, agile enthusiast, scrum master, writer and runner. She blogs here: https://pelsertales.wordpress.com/… Read More »Agile with Families
When coaching new ScrumMasters we often get asked what people should do if teams don’t want to come to meetings like the retrospective, or standups.… Read More »ESVP Retrospective Checkin Activity
How often do you take 5 minutes after a meeting or training session to reflect on what happened? After every meeting we have with a client… Read More »Improve your meetings in just 5 minutes
We hold a retrospective each month, to see how we are doing. We started with the standard retrospective template, but over time we’ve added some… Read More »Monthly Retrospective Plan
How often do you get to the end of the week or month at work and wonder what you have achieved? Day to day reactive work can easily eat away all your time. The best way to counter-act this is to have a plan and make it visible. That way you can constantly be reminded of what you should be focusing on. This simple one page template is quick and easy to fill out, and will help keep you on track during the month. You can use this template for yourself or for your team. In fact you could use the template for a retrospective action.
We are currently helping out at a client, and I found myself in the ScrumMaster role 🙂 It’s been a while! They run one week… Read More »One week sprint, 45 minute Retrospective plan