Agile Scrum Retrospective Meetings With Engagement And Fun

Retrospectives in Agile teams. How to facilitate and not to fail.

What you'll learn

Conduct retrospectives that uncover productivity issues and improve collaboration in your Agile team.

Understand the purpose of Agile retrospectives

What are the best ice-breakers with templates and examples

Discover tools and techniques to create enjoyable and productive retrospectives

Learn how to facilitate long retrospectives and how to create a cool templates for that

Took templates with ideas for providing fun retrospective for agile teams

Learn how facilitation changes during retrospective stages

Antipatterns in Retrospectives in real life

Project management facilitation typs

Retrospectives

Ice-breakers

Agile

Requirements

A basic understanding of AGILE would be nice but not required. You would get most out if have some experience in Scrum.

Description

Facilitate dynamic Agile Scrum meetings that elevate team performance. Build powerful templates that help team be more involved into improvement areas. Upgrade your facilitator skills.Learn more how to bring to your Agile Scrum Meetings more value and fun.Maximize Meeting Impact: Transform your team meetings into valuable sessions that energize and empower your Agile Scrum team.Effective Retrospectives: Unlock the secrets to running impactful retrospective meetings, ensuring your team's continuous improvement.Practical Management Skills: Acquire practical skills and tools to skillfully manage group dynamics and enhance collaboration.Problem to Progress: Turn team challenges into opportunities for meaningful improvements, fostering a culture of continuous enhancement.Boost your Agile team's productivity and engagement through collaborative meetings.When beginning to facilitate meetings, most beginners make mistakes because they're unsure of how to effectively conduct Scrum retrospectives and create an environment where everyone can speak without interrupting each other. Leveraging my 7 years of experience, I've developed a formula for conducting effective meetings, creating a friendly atmosphere within groups, and utilizing specific templates.I aim to assist you in learning extensively from this course to enhance the value of continuous improvement. Save time and see immediate results by applying the knowledge I'm eager to share with you.After this course you would know how to transform your group into a highly productive team. Also I created templates and facilitation WITH fun and interaction, showing that meetings could not be boring. Encouraging relaxed communication among team members sparks a flow of more ideas.## Course Overview ##First part is related to basic understandings what is retrospective and what exactly consist of basic facilitation.The second part relates to retrospective stages. You will learn what is PDCA cycle and what is the difference between good and bad retrospective.The third part relates to retrospectives which you can conduct in real life. I described information about main stages of retrospective facilitation in real Agile teams.This part consist of:first steps of preparationhow to begin the retrospective. What instruments to use.how to collect the informationhow to help team create ideaswhat instruments to use with decision makinghow to close the retrospective properlyAlso mostly all new Scrum masters forget about feedback session so I added it and showed why it is so important to use.The fourth part includes most common antipaterns of retrospective.The fifth part is about real ice-breakers templates which I created or used the most in my practice. I created and described each ice-breaker template for Agile teams.The six part is related to big retrospective meetings and in templates I showed how to facilitate them correctly.Unlock insider insights and proven techniques in this course, drawn from my extensive experience. I've not only implemented these strategies in various companies but have also mentored young Scrum Masters on injecting fun into retrospectives.At the end of this course, you’ll have the skills to create your own meetings with fun and entertainment that will help you and your team to be more productive in continues improvements and get you started on your journey to becoming an even better meeting facilitator!

Overview

Section 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 1 Welcome!

Lecture 2 Important course details

Lecture 3 Meet Your Instructor

Lecture 4 Miro tool for online retrospectives

Section 2: Facilitation and basics for Agile teams

Lecture 5 Facilitation. What is it?

Lecture 6 What is Facilitator accountable for?

Lecture 7 Sprint Retrospective Goals

Section 3: Retrospectives Basics and Stages

Lecture 8 What is Retrospective?

Lecture 9 Cycle PDCA

Lecture 10 Good Bad retrospectives

Lecture 11 Main stages of Retrospective

Lecture 12 Summary of Stages. Not to forget

Section 4: Real life Retrospectives

Lecture 13 First steps of preparation

Lecture 14 Beginning of Retrospective

Lecture 15 Collect the information

Lecture 16 Idea generation

Lecture 17 Decision making

Lecture 18 Closing the Retrospective

Lecture 19 Feedback method. Instruments and how to facilitate.

Lecture 20 After Retrospective. What to do.

Lecture 21 CONCLUSION

Section 5: Retrospectives Antipatterns in real life

Lecture 22 Don’t plan your retrospective

Lecture 23 Don't have positive atmosphere

Lecture 24 Are we doing right with information?

Lecture 25 Low quantity or no stickers with problems

Lecture 26 Finish meeting when time is over

Lecture 27 Closing stage. How not to do.

Lecture 28 After retrospective do nothing

Section 6: Ice-breakers

Lecture 29 What is ice-breaker and why do we need it

Lecture 30 Ice-breaker templates which helps to create open discussion and build trust

Section 7: Templates which helps to collect the topic for discussion and BIG retros

Lecture 31 Real templates with examples for Gathering information

Lecture 32 Big retrospective: report by quarter

Lecture 33 Big retrospective: Boat

Lecture 34 Big retrospective: Virtual Vision boat

Lecture 35 Big retrospective: Hidden obstacles

Lecture 36 Big retrospective: Agile fails

Scrum Masters beginners or those who are learning how to upgrade facilitation in Agile teams with more engagement and fun games..,Project Managers; Program Managers; Product Manager; Developers; Scrum Masters; Development Managers; People Who Want to Know about how to run fun retrospectives