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Retromat

Run great agile retrospectives

Corinna Baldauf

Are your retrospectives stagnating? The same people discussing the same topics with the same conclusions again and again? Get ready for new perspectives because this book is full of activity ideas for just about every team situation. Having a wealth of 140+ activities at hand will let you come up with a fitting plan for each retro.

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Create engaging retrospectives: Choose from more than 20 activities for each of the 5 stages of a retrospectives: Set the stage, Gather data, Generate insight, Decide what to do and Close the retrospective like a pro!

Each activity is described in enough detail to facilitate it and recommendations for when it is a good fit. This will save you time while preparing retros.

And if you've got a hick-up in your retrospectives, there's a handy chapter on troubleshooting and increasing follow-through on action items.

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Corinna Baldauf

Corinna Baldauf is an Agile and Lean practioner since 2010 (mostly Scrum and Kanban). Her perspective is that of a long-term employee at a truly agile organization (sipgate in Germany). She is a facilitator, writer and solution-focussed coach.

She is happiest when she is sharing valuable content – on Retromat.org, Wall-Skills.com and in her books.

Got a question or suggestion? Email hallo@corinnabaldauf.de or tweet to @CorinnaBaldauf. 

Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

About this book

Retrospective Basics

Default Retrospective Plan

All Activities

  1. Set the Stage
  2. Gather Data
  3. Generate Insights
  4. Decide What to Do
  5. Close the Retrospective
  6. Something Completely Different
  7. Sources

Common problems and what you can try

  1. “Help, our retros always go wrong somehow”
  2. “Our retros are huge complainfests. The team blames others and doesn’t take responsibility”
  3. “How can I make shy people speak up?”
  4. “Too many topics leave too little time to talk in-depth”
  5. “I just can’t get her to engage! She’s hostile”
  6. “We don’t ever do any of our action items”
  7. “I’d like to share the awesomeness of retrospectives. How can I excite others?”

Remote Retrospectives

About the Author

Acknowledgements

Appendix

  1. Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development

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