Ask most Scrum Masters, and they’ll tell you their favorite event is the retro. It’s rewarding to create space for learning or to inspire a conversation between team members as they discover brilliant, new ways of working together. And you’d think that after the 750+ retros that I’ve facilitated that I’d have it down to […]
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One in a series of posts intended to provide retro techniques to facilitators by way naming a flavor* and then describing tricks or insights to help tackle that flavor. * flavor – an often implicit vibe, emotion, or general attitude of a team that can inhibit fruitful conversation. I recently had a delightful opportunity come my way:
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This blog post is part of a series where we hope to provide our readers with facilitation tricks, tips, and tools to make your retrospectives a success. You can find more of our retro flavors here. Ever been part of a retro where a single team member (or sometimes the product owner) dominated the conversation? It’s not
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Today, I wanted to write about some flavors of a retro. For example, how do you guide a team that doesn’t want to address the elephant? However, I realized something was missing. How can I tackle the flavors when I haven’t discussed some facilitation fundamentals? So let’s get back to the basics of retrospectives. It’s always
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