Descrption
One of the fundaments of Agile is to “Inspect and Adapt”. This applies to what we achieve but also to how we are achieving it. In Agile projects running Retrospectives happens not just at the end of the project but at each iteration, to find and fix the problems to help the team today. Even if your team is not using Agile methods you can adapt the advice on this course to inspect and adapt your processes and teamwork before the end of a project: hold a retrospective every month or so or at project milestones. Agile Retrospectives is a two-day hands-on workshop, led by the experts and provides the tools, tips and tricks to tune-up your team on an ongoing basis. You'll see how to architect retrospectives in general, how to design them specifically for your team and organization, how to run them effectively, how to make the needed changes and how to scale these techniques up. Each participant will have the opportunity to lead a different retrospective activity, they will receive feedback and coaching, and will experience up to 8 different retrospective activities. Using the skills taught on this course you’ll be able to incrementally improve the capability of your team, and even your whole organization. A copy of Esther Derby and Diana Larsen’s book is provided free with the course.

Main topics

• A flexible framework for retrospectives
• Demonstration project
• Demonstration retrospective
• Design concerns
• Design practice
• Facilitation basic
• Practice leading retrospective activities

Suitable for

Anyone who wishes to learn how to lead effective retrospectives e.g. facilitators, Scrum Masters, leads and team members. Facilitation experience is desirable but not required.