Are your teams tired of the same old retrospectives? Has this ceremony become just another box to check? Have you ceased discovering new ways to improve or uncover new experiments to try? Maybe it’s time to think about retrospectives in a different way.
In this session, we will share our “crazy” strategy for keeping retros fresh, enjoyable and POWERFUL. We’ve learned to leverage team interests, things we’ve heard on the radio, overheard at the water cooler or just any wild idea to get teams engaged and excited to “inspect and adapt”. We have discovered that by asking different questions and using atypical metaphors, we can get teams to unleash creative juices to uncover new ways of working together better. We will share real world examples and the lessons we have learned along the way – both the successes and the failures, so that you too can take your retrospectives to the next level. Thru hands-on activities, you will build your own retro, learn from other attendees and walk out the door with fun, new ideas to take back for your teams next retrospective.
Learning objectives:
• Elevate the “inspect & adapt” mindset of teams
• Use metaphors to get people to think differently
• Learn the power of different questions
• Set the mood for difficult conversations with good outcomes – positive, appreciation
• Benefits of mixing it up – different locations, different analogies
• How to easily make a retro out of anything (team interests, things you hear on the radio, current events, holidays, etc)
• Learn how to get from crazy retro idea to generation of issues to discussion to action

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