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Reflection on Cynefin helping Agile Retrospectives

In this short five minutes reflection I will tell you about where Cynefin can help Agile Retrospectives.

November 24, 2020

in Reflections

Retrospectives Antipatterns

In this episode we have Aino, she's a teacher, a technical conference editor and retrospectives facilitator. We’ll talk about 3 anti patterns from the book she wrote: retrospectives anti patterns

May 28, 2020

in Season-two

Lessons learned in Retrospectives

Paul is an agile coach, he's helping expand and strengthen the Agile Coach Camp initiative, we met at the Retrospective Facilitator Gathering last year. I’ve asked him what his focus is in retrospectives given the recent shift to online plus lessons learned during his experience facilitating retrospectives.

May 7, 2020

in Season-two

A facilitation love story

Gerardo has been a facilitator since 2004, now a board member of IAF he will tell us about his journey, different styles of facilitation, tips about affinity mapping and the upcoming mentoring program that IAF is starting.

April 13, 2020

in Season-two

Reflection on the retro on retros event

In this short five minutes reflection I will tell you about the upcoming retro on retros.

April 9, 2020

in Reflections

Reflection on personal retrospectives

In this short five minutes reflection I will tell you about personal retrospectives.

April 7, 2020

in Reflections

Imago dialogue to improve communication in your retrospective

Have you ever experienced people in your retrospective talking past—or over—each other? In this episode we’ll tackle that with Karen Gimnig. She has been using tools from the IMAGO technique for several years to improve group communication. She’s a brilliant facilitator, we met at an open space conference in Oregon...

March 25, 2020

in Season-two

Suddenly remote retrospectives

In this episode we focus on sudden remote retrospectives. What if you were used to physical retrospective and now your office is all remote? What are some tips for setting up an effective remote retrospectives? That’s the focus of this interview with Mark Kilby.

March 25, 2020

in Season-two

Retrospectives are boring and useless

Gitte share some insights on how to avoid boring and useless retrospectives.

March 14, 2020

in Season-two

Reflection before world retrospective day 2020

In this short five minutes reflection I will tell you a little bit about the upcoming world retrospective day 2020.

March 10, 2020

in Reflections

An agile retrospective with the Beatles

Paul share some of his retrospective facilitation stories and tells us about ORSC™ (organization and relationship systems coaching). How you coach the Beatles is different then coaching John, Paul, Ringo and George individually.

March 10, 2020

in Season-two

Positive emotional attractor and negative emotional attractor in retrospectives

Emotional intelligence, hope, mindfulness, and compassion help a person reverse the damage of chronic stress and build great leadership relationships. The Positive and Negative Emotional Attractors inspire sustained, desired change and learning at many levels. In this episode I'll chat with Kevin Callahan that will tell us how to practically...

November 25, 2019

in Season-one

More conversations on remote retrospective facilitation

Together, Kirsten and Jay have specialised in enabling distributed teams to reach high performance, using a combination of adapted facilitation techniques, team coaching methods and Agile frameworks. In this episode we will chat about structures and challenges for remote retrospectives.

November 22, 2019

in Season-one

A retrospectives is where the action is

Elise wrote "Where the action is" a book about meetings that make or break your organization. She'll share some insights on how to make our retrospectives even more effective considering the meeting performance maturity model, core competencies

October 7, 2019

in Season-one

Reflection on picking a retrospective framework instead of activities

There are so many retrospective activities! Which one to pick? Sailboat? Radar? 3 columns? This is a quick reflection on picking a framework rather then activities for your next retrospective.

October 2, 2019

in Reflections

Retrospectives for organizational change

Jutta wrote a book about retrospectives for organizational change. In this episode I ask her what drove her to write the book and what challenges she faced facilitating retrospectives for organizational change.

August 29, 2019

in Season-one

Reflection on roles in retrospectives

If you're a facilitator, you probably have found yourself in a situation where you're trying to facilitate a conversation while you're keeping track of the time for this session or activity. And you're also like taking notes about what's being said on a whiteboard...

August 22, 2019

in Reflections

Discovering retrospectives from the International Association of Facilitators point of view

Have you ever heard of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF)? In this episode we interview Karen and Wiebke--two members of IAF--that run a workshop called "Discovering retrospectives" during the European Conference of the International Association of Facilitators in Milan. I've asked about the IAF mission and what insights experienced...

July 19, 2019

in Season-one

Reflection on voting in retrospectives

A 5 minute reflection on retrospective topics.

July 5, 2019

in Reflections

Retrospective Facilitators Gathering (RFG) 2019

The retrospective facilitators gathering (RFG) is an annual open space conference--started in 2002--where we discuss retrospective facilitation techniques and everything that connects to it. Why would you spend one week on a conference dedicated to retrospective facilitation? I attended this year's (2019) and in this episode I chat with 4...

June 24, 2019

in Season-one

Preparing and facilitating a large retrospective

Anita, Lukas and Pam collaborated in facilitating a 3 hours retrospective for multiple teams with a total of 60 participants. They split the group in smaller groups and used nested diamonds of participatory decision making. Why would you embark on such an endeavor? What did they learn and what recommendations...

June 10, 2019

in Season-one

Beyond retrospectives using Toyota Learning Kata

Do you ever find your retrospective only handles business as usual items? It can do more then that, Adam and I chat about increasing the impact of our agile retrospectives by using concepts from Toyota Learning Kata.

June 10, 2019

in Season-one

Why would you write a book about retrospectives?

Why do we need another book about retrospectives? In this episode Pat tells us about the book he wrote in 2013 about retrospective facilitation and share some insights from his experience.

June 3, 2019

in Season-one

War time US Navy debriefings and retrospectives

A US Navy F18 pilot veteran share with us how debriefings and a culture of feedback is second nature in the US Navy. How can we incorporate that in our daily work?

May 28, 2019

in Military

War time US Army after action review and retrospectives

A US Army veteran--now engineers on the Java Spring team--tell us about ingenuous action items generated during after action reviews at war time.

May 20, 2019

in Military

War time debriefings in the US Marine Corps and retrospectives

We often skip retrospectives in our practices. What happens when you skip a debriefing in a war-zone? In this episode we interview a USMC war veteran and reflect about similarities between retrospectives and military debriefings.

May 13, 2019

in Military

Retrospective learning with double loop learning

Do you ever find your retrospective fixing low hanging fruit? What about the harder issues? In this episode we’ll hear about double loop learning with Joanne Perold.

April 29, 2019

in Season-one

The end goal of a retrospective

What’s the end goal of a retrospective? I am gonna give you a little spoiler the answer is not to put stuff in three columns and fix all the sad items. In this episode we’ll hear George Dinwiddie’s answer.

April 17, 2019

in Season-one

Remote retrospectives challenges and advantages

In this episode we talk with David Horowitz about the challenges--and advantages--of remote retrospectives.

April 2, 2019

in Season-one

The five steps retrospective framework

In this episode we talk with Diana Larsen about the origins and reasons for the 5 steps framework.

March 25, 2019

in Season-one

Introduce change in retrospectives

In this episode we talk with Linda Rising about introducing changes to our retrospective facilitation and how the latest neuroscience research can help.

March 13, 2019

in Season-one

Becoming a facilitator

In this episode we talk with Ryan Latta about his journey becoming a retrospective facilitator. He will shares some challenges he faced running retrospectives and when he discovered it was more then three columns.

March 5, 2019

in Season-one

What is a powerful retrospective

In this first episode we talk with Esther Derby about what a retrospective really is and the role of the facilitator.

February 26, 2019

in Season-one

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Reflection on Cynefin helping Agile Retrospectives

Retrospectives Antipatterns

Lessons learned in Retrospectives

A facilitation love story

Reflection on the retro on retros event

Reflection on personal retrospectives

Imago dialogue to improve communication in your retrospective

Suddenly remote retrospectives

Retrospectives are boring and useless

Reflection before world retrospective day 2020

An agile retrospective with the Beatles

Positive emotional attractor and negative emotional attractor in retrospectives

More conversations on remote retrospective facilitation

A retrospectives is where the action is

Reflection on picking a retrospective framework instead of activities

Retrospectives for organizational change

Reflection on roles in retrospectives

Discovering retrospectives from the International Association of Facilitators point of view

Reflection on voting in retrospectives

Retrospective Facilitators Gathering (RFG) 2019

Preparing and facilitating a large retrospective

Beyond retrospectives using Toyota Learning Kata

Why would you write a book about retrospectives?

War time US Navy debriefings and retrospectives

War time US Army after action review and retrospectives

War time debriefings in the US Marine Corps and retrospectives

Retrospective learning with double loop learning

The end goal of a retrospective

Remote retrospectives challenges and advantages

The five steps retrospective framework

Introduce change in retrospectives

Becoming a facilitator

What is a powerful retrospective