Effective Agile Retrospectives

A comprehensive blueprint on how to craft and facilitate impactful agile retrospectives. ​

What you'll learn

What are Agile Retrospectives and what they are not

Why Agile Retrospectives fail and how to make them successful

Everything you need to prepare and run effective Agile Retrospectives, including crucial facilitation skills

The most common issues you can encounter in Agile Retrospectives and how to fix them

Requirements

No agile or retrospectives experience required. You'll get everything you need in this course to go from zero to hero in successful agile retrospectives.

Description

This is a comprehensive course that teaches you everything you need, from structure to behaviors, to create and lead winning agile retrospectives.With Effective Agile Retrospectives you’ll go from feeling anxious and looking for a fancy retrospective template every end of sprint, to feeling confident and breaking free from performance anxiety, knowing exactly what to do to craft engaging, actionable agile retrospectives.Whether you are new to retrospectives and looking to sharpen your skills or a more seasoned facilitator looking to enhance your retrospectives, Effective Agile Retrospectives is for you if you are:A Scrum Master tired of justifying retrospectives for your team after hearing “let’s skip it just this time” and you want to break free from running after the next fancy retrospective template.An Agile Coach who wants to demonstrate the undeniable value of retrospectives to managers and team members alike by leading high impact retrospectives.A Team Lead or Managers, who believes in team development and is looking for better ways to growing awesome teams.A willing team member who knows there are better ways to help the team’s performance from the trenches.Why take this course?Retrospectives are a powerful tool for team development and project success. Learning how to design, run and troubleshoot retrospectives requires a combination of skills that can set you apart in your career and in growing your leadership.Instead of checking random videos and blog posts out there and feeling scattered in your knowledge, I'll give you the right structure in the right sequence at the right level of detail. A blueprint for execution and improvement of your agile retrospectives.Plus…… A lot of what people call agile retrospectives is simply not true. That's why you see those common disengaging meetings, hard to justify to managers, and from which most team members want to "skip just this time!"Effective Agile Retrospectives is designed by a coach with experience from the trenches for over 2 decades and counting; a former agile software developer who understands what motivates teams and executives alike.This self-paced course was designed to address the quality and effectiveness of retrospectives in 4 weeks or less. You decide how much time to dedicate and by the end of it you'll:Know exactly what goes into the structure of a successful retrospective so you have a rinse and repeat formula to follow.Lead retrospectives with confidence by making them highly actionable and engaging.Turn skepticism into anticipation, with teams looking forward to the retrospectives you run as key moments of collaboration and innovation.Convince managers and other stakeholders of the strategic importance of retrospectives, by demonstrating their undeniable value as strategic investments in the team’s success.Break free from performance anxiety and become a guide who inspires teams to see retrospectives as essential milestones in their journey of continuous improvement and professional growth.Elevate your retrospectives game and solidify your role as a facilitator who creates inspiring changes for teams and galvanizes their collaboration and performance towards continuous improvement.

Overview

Section 1: Your First Steps

Lecture 1 Welcome!

Lecture 2 How This Course Works

Lecture 3 What Are Retrospectives?

Lecture 4 What Retrospectives are NOT

Lecture 5 Why Most Retrospectives Fail

Section 2: Module 1 - The structure of an agile retrospective

Lecture 6 Preparation is everything

Lecture 7 Phase 1 - Set the Stage

Lecture 8 What happens when you skip Phase 1

Lecture 9 Phase 2 - Gather Data

Lecture 10 What happens when you skip Phase 2

Lecture 11 Phase 3 - Generate Insights

Lecture 12 What happens when you skip Phase 3

Lecture 13 Phase 4 - Decide What to Do

Lecture 14 What happens when you skip Phase 4

Lecture 15 Phase 5 - Close the Retrospective

Lecture 16 What happens when you skip Phase 5

Lecture 17 Putting it all together

Section 3: Module 2 - Your facilitation matters

Lecture 18 Introduction

Lecture 19 Time management

Lecture 20 Your headspace is key

Lecture 21 Manage interpersonal dynamics

Lecture 22 Conflict vs Dialogue

Lecture 23 Key behaviors of effective facilitators

Section 4: Module 3 - Troubleshooting your Retrospectives

Lecture 24 Fixing common issues

Lecture 25 Not all problems are worth solving

Lecture 26 Solve on the scope of influence

Lecture 27 Running out of time

Lecture 28 Nothing to talk about

Lecture 29 Silent contributors

Lecture 30 Sucking the air out of the room

Lecture 31 Only talking about problems

Lecture 32 All fun and giggles

Section 5: Conclusion

Lecture 33 Congratulations!

Aspiring and seasoned Scrum Masters alike,Agile Coaches who want to reset their abilities and create more powerful retrospectives,Managers and Leaders who want to enable autonomous awesome teams