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!