Team Meetings That Don't Suck - Avoid Retrospectives Antipatterns • Aino Vonge Corry • GOTO 2021

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2021. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph
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Aino Vonge Corry - Author of "Retrospectives Antipatterns"
ABSTRACT
See how small changes for team dynamics can eliminate most productivity issues and apathy.
Anti-Patterns are like patterns, only more informative. With anti-patterns, you will first see what patterns recur in “bad” retrospectives and then you will see how to avoid, or remedy, the situation.
Based on her extensive experience with facilitating retrospectives, Aino will share an entertaining and informative presentation on the challenges she has seen teams experience over the years and how to overcome them.
This talk will be interesting for everyone facilitating meetings in general, and retrospectives [...]
TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
01:35 Patterns vs. Antipatterns
04:30 Retrospectives
15:22 "Wheel of fortune" antipattern
16:40 "In the soup" antipattern
20:37 "Prime directive ignorance" antipattern
25:12 "Loudmouth" antipattern
28:54 "Do it yourself" antipattern
31:25 "Disregard for preparation" antipattern
37:36 Outro
Download slides and read the full abstract here:
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RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Aino Vonge Corry • Retrospectives Antipatterns • amzn.to/3naFk84
Lee, Wickens, Liu & Boyle • Designing for People • amzn.to/313ovpi
Stone, Chaparro, Keebler, Chaparro & McConnell • Introduction to Human Factors • amzn.to/3mfXqY2
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[@scoogsy]

Excellent!

[@maboobali718]

Blueprint

[@CosasCotidianas]

Valuable concepts exposed here. It's interesting how many scrum masters focus on applying theoretical frameworks without trusting their common sense and forbidding any flexibility/new practices required by the team given the scenario they have to work on. I think any agile practice has to be focused on the evolution of the team as a unit, which has a positive effect on the productivity; the rest is just noise. No blaming, no excuses, just be assertive and transparent enough to let the process flow and facilitate the communication.

[@aliriojosemoravenera8168]

Amado Dios, en este nuevo sábado me despierto con muchísima alegría para darte gracias por el milagro de la vida, por todo aquello que me rodea, por la familia que me acompaña y por todas las bendiciones con las que Tú colmas mis días. Gracias también porque me permites mantener la fe y ser feliz a pesar de las dificultades y gracias porque con este nuevo despertar mi espíritu se llena de esperanzas. Mi propósito de hoy es hacer el bien sin dudas ni angustia. En este nuevo día me permitiré la dicha de vivir plenamente y cumpliré con todas mis obligaciones con amor y alegría, entregando a cada momento lo mejor de mí, porque sé que los grandes triunfos se obtienen a través de grandes esfuerzos. Señor, te pido que nunca te apartes de mí, pues mis victorias y mis alegrías solo serán completas si Tú estás a mi lado. Por favor tómame de la mano y ayúdame a avanzar por el pasaje de la vida. Muéstrame el buen camino, te suplico que me lleves por sendas de regocijo y prosperidad, que apartes al enemigo mal intencionado de mi vera y que me permitas tener un corazón lleno de amor. Todo lo bueno que haga en este día te lo quiero ofrecer a Ti, padre celestial. Te pido también por mi familia. Por favor cúbrenos con tu hermoso manto de luz, de amor y de protección. Permítenos alcanzar nuestros anhelos, también nuestros propósitos y al llegar la noche concédenos la dicha de reencontrarnos en nuestro hogar para dar testimonio de tu infinita bondad. Amado Dios, te invito a que habites con nosotros en nuestro hogar. Hoy exclamo con fe que en este nuevo día todo me saldrá bien y mi jornada estará llena de dicha, de bendiciones y de prosperidad, porque Dios está conmigo y donde está Dios no falta absolutamente nada Amén 🙏🙏🙏

[@illiakailli]

solving 'missing a deadline' problem is a responsibility of a manager who set this deadline and who decided to use such emotionally charged term for setting a goal. 'Deadline framing' it is a type of double-speak, a kind of subconscious threat, a manipulative verbal stunt. I agree that it makes sense to assign responsible person for some task/story/epic, it also makes sense to work towards increasing velocity of a team by actually helping team members to solve specific technical problems. However, too often non-technical managers are just box tickers and task masters (see David Graeber's bs jobs book): they have very dim understanding of how system works underneath and they are incapable to actually help ... so they tend to invent and solve non-existing problems to prove to themselves and to everyone around that they are worthy. It may be a black-and-white treatment of situation and in reality there are no completely non-technical managers, but the biggest mistake of a typical IT manager is living in denial of implementation details, nuts and bolts of their projects ... as its for sure easier and you don't need to know much to be such a person ... but it often comes at the expense of everyone else involved in such enterprise.

[@emceha]

Loudmouth, claiming that have no idea that he/she talks a lot, usually knows it’s a problem, but they rarely catch themselves in the moment, only after. That creates shame, and when they Are additionally called out, even gently, they are defensive, pretending they had no idea. I believe the juniors, but older ones know themselves. Point 2 - shooting question quick like they feel they will miss the occasion. They actually might, some people have problems with working memory, when context changes, they offload last topic and start new train of thought. Both of those things are common symptoms of ADHD, often lighter form. 3- 5% of humans have some form of adhd cluster of symptoms

[@farooqbannu3217]

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[@yenius4361]

Thanks for the first

[@khalidfarooqkf7179]

Goto

[@BryonLape]

Why does every tech conference video have horrible audio?

[@prasadbhokare9228]

So that you give enough attention to hear the speaker.

[@arbuzik55555]

Another speech about obvious things… you need only think to get to all those conclusions by yourself… “sometimes you have people that they don’t want to take responsibility” .. what you do then ? Do you really need an example based on data? People are different teams are different… use your head then that’s all

[@hajiahmad6320]

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[@sabanerdemer1390]

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[@this-is-bioman]

Chaotic. Unorganized. I have no idea what this is about. I'm shocked what hateful and noninclusive words she picks. First the thing about skin cancer then later the GrumpyOldMan in her excel sheet. Unbelievable.

[@BryonLape]

There is no such thing as a team meeting that doesn't suck.

[@AliceDamnation]

From the two comments you made in this video alone, I would say you have a tendency to over generalise. "every tech conference has horrible audio". "all team meetings suck". Have you ever questioned if you may be exagerating? In which ways can you contribute to make your team meetings better?

[@spreadkit]

@@AliceDamnation anyway, he sounds like a nightmare to work with