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Making Good Teams Great
Through Agile Retrospectives!
By Margarita Gevorgyan
From SFL
Objectives
1. Change the way we think about
Retrospectives
2. Discuss main issues/mistakes
3. How to make the session more engaging
for development team.
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Purpose of Retrospective Session
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Retrospective in Scrum
Main issues with this meeting
• Easy to get bored
• Are considered as waste of time by
developers
• And as a result can be skipped easily
Possible result of skipping it:
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Hidden reasons
1. Simply they are not conducted
effective enough
2. Absence of proper follow up-ing
mechanism
Helping Your Team Inspect and
Adapt
1. Set the stage
2. Gather data
3. Generate insights
4. Decide what to do
5. Close the retrospective.
Change the format as much as
possible!
images
http://retrospectivewiki.org/index.php?title=Retrospective_Plans
Leading Retrospectives
1. Focus on the process and structure
2. Help the group reach their goal
3. Retrospective leaders remain Neutral
4. Watch out for people who are talking
more
Follow up-ing the decisions made
during the meeting
Visualize
Have assignees
Remind before starting the sprint
Appreciations
Image here
Summary
1. Change the format often
2. Follow up action points
3. End with something very positive!
(Appreciations, Happiness metric…)
4. Keep in mind to use it as technic for
Empowerment and Enjoyment for your
teams.
And remember! Never ever
skip it 
a
Thank you !
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