The Team Reflects… Then Tunes and Adjusts – Part Two

Published August 25th, 2009 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

This is a short workshop to unpack and examine the myriad ways team members can reflect, tune & adjust individual and team behavior: e.g., PDCA, retrospectives, AARs, Stand-ups, Pair debriefing, peer feedback, and more. We will create new activities to help teams look at their behaviors, tune their teamwork, and practice or support their adjustments.

The Team Reflects… Then Tunes and Adjusts – Part One

Published August 25th, 2009 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

This is a short workshop to unpack and examine the myriad ways team members can reflect, tune & adjust individual and team behavior: e.g., PDCA, retrospectives, AARs, Stand-ups, Pair debriefing, peer feedback, and more. We will create new activities to help teams look at their behaviors, tune their teamwork, and practice or support their adjustments.

Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great!

Published February 25th, 2009 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

Project retrospectives help teams examine what went right and what went wrong on a project. But traditionally, retrospectives (also known as “post-mortems”) are only performed at the end of the project — too late to help. In organizations where teams develop using iterative, incremental methods, Agile retrospectives at the end of each iteration or increment stimulate continuous improvement throughout the project. Exceptional software process and project improvement grows out of solid data and good planning. Esther Derby and Diana Larsen, authors of Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great, will introduce you to a framework for effective retrospectives.

Agile Retrospective

Published February 17th, 2009 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

One of a series of short stop-action videos explaining key agile topics in plain language. This episode focuses on Agile Retrospectives.


Heartbeat Retrospectives to Amplify Team Effectiveness

Published June 26th, 2008 Under General | Leave a Comment

In this presentation filmed during QCon London 2007, Boris Gloger speaks about retrospectives. Agile development teams learn and improve by inspecting and adapting. High performing teams inspect and adapt not only their code and tests, but also their methods and interactions.

Boris is a Certified Scrum Master Trainer and NLP Practitioner and holds a Master in Philosophy and Sociology from TU Darmstadt, Germany. He founded SPRiNT iT, an agile software development and consulting company in Ettlingen, Germany.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Heartbeat-Retrospectives-Boris-Gloger

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