Ten Easy Ways to Make Your Agile Retrospectives Great Again!

[@florianbappler7242]

Thanks for the inspiration! This encouraged me today to try something new in our virtual retrospective: monitors off, grab a cup of tea, sit on the sofa and just talk. The team seemed to like it.

[@InspectAdaptLtd]

Brilliant Florian! Good for you!

[@carnub]

I think connected to no.10, show the team the impact of previous actions taken. There’s nothing like showing the value of the retrospective.

[@InspectAdaptLtd]

Absolutely!

[@parixitchampaneriya986]

Great Tips. It is so obvious that the Retros become pale if not changed.

[@kerstenthiele8308]

Thanks a lot for this great video, really helpful and brilliant video concept!

[@InspectAdaptLtd]

You’re welcome Kersten. Thanks for taking the time to let me know you found it valuable

[@garethholebrook]

Thanks for the videos, am sharing with my team along with your books.

[@InspectAdaptLtd]

You’re welcome Gareth. Thanks for commenting! And sharing!

[@felipejota824]

Great Tips! I'll really try those techniques with my teams. Thank you for sharing.

[@InspectAdaptLtd]

Hope they go well

[@akewns788]

Some good stuff in here, thanks

[@InspectAdaptLtd]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@storytellercakes9477]

Brilliant 😊

[@catherinepamphile2645]

Real nice !

[@InspectAdaptLtd]

Thank you Catherine

[@Yastreb86]

Thank you! Will be very helpful if you could create some separate video about healthy conflict topic ;)

[@InspectAdaptLtd]

Hi Egor. Thanks for commenting. I will put this on the backlog

[@InspectAdaptLtd]

Hi Egor. My new video is out now and it’s for you...

[@Yastreb86]

@@InspectAdaptLtd Thank you very much, Geoff! Hope it will be valuable not only for me :)

[@maddoctorfish]

Agree with most of those. We tried pub but did to much drinking and not enough retro. Totally agree with changing format, I try a different pattern each meeting.

[@InspectAdaptLtd]

Thanks for the comment Chris. What’s the next thing you want to try?

[@biplab43]

Hi Geoff, I couldn't find your video on "Swatting your actions". Could you provide the link please?

[@InspectAdaptLtd]

Sorry about that Biplad. Here's the link kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYmvdJ6BasSJo80

[@biplab43]

@@InspectAdaptLtd Thank you, Geoff.

[@erchedepe]

Let people play? Can you recommend some simple play for the retrospectives?

[@InspectAdaptLtd]

There are loads of little games you can try. Tastycupcakes.org is a good first place to try for inspiration

[@PeterGfader]

Tastycupcakes for retros. Nice!

[@Leo-bg8mi]

Is tastycupcakes still alive? I cant register neither with my gmail and my business mail....and I cant find any of games as well..

[@PeterGfader]

@@Leo-bg8mi Search and pages seem to work www.tastycupcakes.org/?s=99+balloons example

[@InsprationalMusings]

Over a month or two?

[@InspectAdaptLtd]

It’s definitely not a quick fix but you can see some improvements pretty quickly as well

[@opeade9779]

You talked about data and data points ,what kind of data are you referring to.

[@InspectAdaptLtd]

Hi there Ope. Data can be anything really - hard or soft, quantitative or qualitative. Most of the great teams I have been lucky to be part of our observe have done kind of data that they reflect upon. One team may be interested in the difference in cycle time of product backlog items when working independently or in pairs, another may be interested in the amount of time spent fixing bugs compared to working on new features. Often the most eye opening thing is to look at what actually happened compared to what we “felt” or “assumed” happened.

[@garagavia]

oof the editing is quite jarring here