Agile CoP: Effective Retrospective
Abstract: Ted Lasso is the fictional soccer coach who becomes the head coach for AFC Richmond, a struggling English Premier League football team. As the head coach, Ted Lasso brings positive energy and creates a positive environment where his team can grow and thrive together! This is what we need for our retrospectives.
So many of our retrospectives today are focused on:
- What we are doing wrong
- The mistakes we keep making
- The issues we keep encountering
- What’s preventing us from succeeding
In this session, we will learn to refocus our retrospectives into positive experiences that celebrate what we do well and encourage our teams to keep progressing and getting better. Our teams need to understand that while they may not be perfect, are we better now than where we were 6 months ago, 9 months ago, and 12 months ago. Let’s recognize and celebrate that. And by doing that, we continue to be inspired so that 6 months from now, 9 months from now, and even 12 months from now, our teams continue their growth and continuous improve.
This session will focus on these Learning Objectives:
- Understanding the need to celebrate the wins
- How to create a safe, open space for retrospectives
- Retrospective techniques to help our teams celebrate, learn, and grow
- How to use retrospective to create great self-awareness and problem-solving on our teams
- Review a checklist for using retrospectives to improve our teams
By the end of the session, we’ll learn how to Ted Lasso our retrospectives and turn our retrospectives into fun, effective, and inspiring sessions that help our teams learn and grow!
Richard Cheng is the founder of Agility Prime Solutions, which provides transformative training and coaching in Agile concepts and methods. As a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and an Agile coach with deep real-world experiences, Richard brings his diverse experiences to share how Agile works in different environments. He has worked with large organizations such as the Nasdaq Stock Market and Progressive Insurance, leading-edge companies like Dashlane and The Motley Fool, federal agencies like the Office of Personnel Management and Department of Defense, and non-profits and associations such as the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators and the American Association of Medical Colleges.
A graduate of Virginia Tech, Richard has authored several publications on project management, presented at Agile and PMI sponsored industry events, is a member of Mensa, and holds certifications including Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Accredited Kanban Instructor (AKT), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), and Project Management Professional (PMP). Richard is a founder and was an executive committee member of the Agile Delivery for Agencies, Programs, and Teams (ADAPT), a joint government/industry/academia task force promoting agility in the Federal government.
Event Details
Event Date | 04-23-2025 6:00 pm |
Event End Date | 04-23-2025 7:00 pm |
Cut off date | 04-23-2025 6:00 pm |
Registered | 31 |
Individual Price | Free |
No. of Ways of Working PDUs | 1 |
Location | Virtual Meeting – Conferencing details will be distributed prior to the meeting |