Does your standard iteration retrospective constantly repeat the mantra: “What did we do well?” “What could we do better?” “What one thing would we like to work on during the next sprint” Is your team starting to push back on taking the time for their retrospective? If so … Increase your team’s effectiveness by facilitating better retrospectives. We will demonstrate and teach: How to establish a retrospective’s goal. What constitutes an effective retrospective. Which activities generate information and which help make decisions. Common traps, pitfalls

In Better Process, Better People I talked about retrospectives as a process for learning and improvement. My colleague Esther Derby and I will be conducting two one day workshops on Effective Agile Retrospectives. If you want to make the retrospectives you lead more effective, we would enjoy having you participate in the workshop. We’ll be in North Carolina in March.

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement. Officially author unknown, but I heard it from my mother, more than once. Reading Better People, Better Process may make it seem like I’m one of those touchy-feely “people over process” types. I confess I have a fondness for people but I’m also a big fan of process. Luckily, people and process don’t exist as either/or. People and process exist as both/and. Here’s a process that can both improve your other processes your people,