Retrospectives - too important to leave them to amateurs

25-minute Talk

To get meaningful results from a retro, the facilitator needs to know about social interactions as well as tools and techniques.

Timetable

11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Thursday 24th

Room

Room E1 - Track 4: Vendor Talks

Audience

Retrospective facilitators, Scrum Master, Agile Coach

Key-Learnings

  • Train your retro facilitators to get better retros.
  • Retrospectives are the most important driver for continuous improvement.

Retrospectives often suffer from missing professionality of their facilitators.

What are your experiences with retrospectives? Boring, little to no effects, issues are not addressed,...? I saw too many teams doing bad retros or even stop doing retros. Without good and effective retros there will not be improvement. To facilitate retrospectives that inspire participants and let them talk about issues openly requires a well skilled facilitator. I will give insight of what I learned from more than 300 retrospective. You will get an overview what a well skilled facilitator needs to know and to do.

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