Tips for Retrospectives | A Chat with Aino Corry
278Agile Retrospectives are important to close a feedback loop. Our aim in Continuous Delivery is to always look to improve, Retrospectives give us a tool to use to organise that process of continuous improvement. The trouble is that they are often unpopular, often because they are done badly. So how do they go wrong, and how can we do better?
In this episode Dave Farley talks to expert and author Aino Corry about Retrospective Antipatterns, the common ways in which Scrum Retrospectives, or any other kind, sometimes go wrong. Aino is an expert at helping teams use Retrospectives to steer them to better performance, and often more fun! Software development is a human activity, so it helps to improve the human interactions, but retrospectives are not just about how we feel about things, they give us an opportunity to reflect on all aspects of our work, the team-centered and the technical.
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More videos from Aino on retrospective anti-patterns:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMVvER8dtS4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMv9glJuoGc
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FVqsjKacVI
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro to Retrospectives as Feedback
01:14 Intro to Dr. Aino Vonge Corry
01:33 The challenges faced in creating a DevOps team
02:31 Building trust in teams
04:00 No.1 predictor of team performance is psychological safety
05:30 When to use anonymity in retrospectives
07:30 The Prime Directive “unconditional positive regard”
08:55 Advice for involving shy, technical people
11:05 Capture small actionable, measurable ‘experiments’
13:30 Celebrating achievements
15:28 The Role of the Facilitator
16:40 Should managers be at the retrospective?
18:15 In control, influence or in the soup!
21:41 Coffee, red wine, cake and wisdom
23:06 Becoming a good facilitator
25:15 Thank you and wrap up