This document appears to be a personal self-review by Ilias Bartolini. It includes sections on why he is effective and enthusiastic, how he conducts retrospectives by gathering data and generating insight, his expectations and goals for the future, and actions he plans to take. The review emphasizes continuous learning and looking at things from different perspectives with the help of others.

1. A personal
(self) review
Ilias Bartolini
ibartoli@thoughtworks.com

4. Why? Enth
ffectiveness usiasm
Confidence and e !

5. Why?
Don’t look only at the size of our shoes
but the path we want to follow

6. How?
! Set the stage
! Gather data
! Generate insight
! Decide what to do
! Close the retrospective

7. How?

8. How?

9. How? a ! Collect and synthetize your feedback
gather dat
! Think at you past projects
! Acknowledge what
you’ve learned
! Include non-work related
important events
! Reorder your
photographies :)

10. How?
values
! What did you consider very positive ! What inspires
or negative in the past? you most?
! What keeps you up at night?
! Who are the people ! If you ran the world…
you admire most?

11. How? s ! Where do you want to be
expectation
5, 2, 1 yrs from now?
[futurespective]
! Think without
constraints / outside of
the box
! Why I deserve an “A”
! Review the data you gathered
- bad
- to improve
- what is missing?

12. How? ! Act immediately!
actions
! Plan
! S.M.A.R.T. goals
! Generate alternatives
! Ask for help :)

13. How?
! NO BDUF

14. How?
! Evolve

15. How?
! Evolve

16. How?
! Evolve

17. How?
! Continuous

18. How?
! Look from different perspectives

19. How?
! Look from different perspectives

20. YOU!
Use your own tools!
“people
more th
an proce
sses and
tools” :)

21. YOU!
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself
and you are the easiest person to fool.”
Richard P. Feynman
as
ume party
At a cost lizabeth II
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Quee
Linda Rising – The power of an Agile Mindset
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W47rcJowx7k

22. WE!
Enriched by each people I’ve been talking with!

23. WE!
“Change will never happen fully until people know
how to talk to one another”

24. WE!
A personal
(self) review
Thank you!
Ilias Bartolini
ibartoli@thoughtworks.com

25. credits
Books:
http://www.amazon.com/Generosity-Plan-Sharing-Treasure-Talent/dp/B004J8HXBS
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Possibility-Practices-Leadership-Relationship/dp/0142001104/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-Confrontations-promises-violated-expectations/dp/0071446524
Pictures from flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robyone/1911381814/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/76805467@N06/6887718707/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40348123@N02/3996348907/ Thank you!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28551156@N06/2695918301/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pie4dan/4779152804
Videos from youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W47rcJowx7k - Linda Rising: The Power of an Agile mindset
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzg1CU8t9nw - Richard Feynman: No ordinary genius
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/