A retrospective is a meeting held at the end of a development iteration or project milestone to help the team identify ways to improve their team effectiveness.
In this Agile Retrospectives workshop you will learn about the foundations of retrospective facilitation with implementation tips and practical exercises so you can try out the techniques yourself.
The workshop covers how to plan a retrospective, how to run a retrospective and how to integrate retrospectives
into agile development lifecycles.
Use facilitation techniques in retrospectives and gain practical experience in how to apply them. Upon completion of this course you will have a grounding in retrospective design and you will know how to connect action plans with the agile planning cycle.
This Agile Retrospectives workshop will have some presentation interleaved with practical exercises so that all participants have a chance to practice the facilitation techniques as they are explained.
During the day, we cover the following topics
Embedding Retrospectives within Agile
- What are retrospectives?
- Underlying structure for Retrospectives
- Release/Project Retrospectives
- Heartbeat Retrospectives
Facilitating Conversations
- Managing flow and engagement
- Focussed conversation and ORID model
- Diffusing conflict
- Building agreement
Effective Action Planning
Retrospective Design
- Activities to use in Retrospectives
- Pre-work and follow-up
Problem solving clinic
