Effective Agile Retrospectives

Free Download Effective Agile Retrospectives
Published 4/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 4.30 GB | Duration: 3h 58m
A comprehensive blueprint on how to craft and facilitate impactful agile retrospectives. ​

What you’ll learn
What are Agile Retrospectives and what they are not
Why Agile Retrospectives fail and how to make them successful
Everything you need to prepare and run effective Agile Retrospectives, including crucial facilitation skills
The most common issues you can encounter in Agile Retrospectives and how to fix them
Requirements
No agile or retrospectives experience required. You’ll get everything you need in this course to go from zero to hero in successful agile retrospectives.
Description
This is a comprehensive course that teaches you everything you need, from structure to behaviors, to create and lead winning agile retrospectives.With Effective Agile Retrospectives you’ll go from feeling anxious and looking for a fancy retrospective template every end of sprint, to feeling confident and breaking free from performance anxiety, knowing exactly what to do to craft engaging, actionable agile retrospectives.Whether you are new to retrospectives and looking to sharpen your skills or a more seasoned facilitator looking to enhance your retrospectives, Effective Agile Retrospectives is for you if you are:A Scrum Master tired of justifying retrospectives for your team after hearing “let’s skip it just this time” and you want to break free from running after the next fancy retrospective template.An Agile Coach who wants to demonstrate the undeniable value of retrospectives to managers and team members alike by leading high impact retrospectives.A Team Lead or Managers, who believes in team development and is looking for better ways to growing awesome teams.A willing team member who knows there are better ways to help the team’s performance from the trenches.Why take this course?Retrospectives are a powerful tool for team development and project success. Learning how to design, run and troubleshoot retrospectives requires a combination of skills that can set you apart in your career and in growing your leadership.Instead of checking random videos and blog posts out there and feeling scattered in your knowledge, I’ll give you the right structure in the right sequence at the right level of detail. A blueprint for execution and improvement of your agile retrospectives.Plus…… A lot of what people call agile retrospectives is simply not true. That’s why you see those common disengaging meetings, hard to justify to managers, and from which most team members want to "skip just this time!"Effective Agile Retrospectives is designed by a coach with experience from the trenches for over 2 decades and counting; a former agile software developer who understands what motivates teams and executives alike.This self-paced course was designed to address the quality and effectiveness of retrospectives in 4 weeks or less. You decide how much time to dedicate and by the end of it you’ll:Know exactly what goes into the structure of a successful retrospective so you have a rinse and repeat formula to follow.Lead retrospectives with confidence by making them highly actionable and engaging.Turn skepticism into anticipation, with teams looking forward to the retrospectives you run as key moments of collaboration and innovation.Convince managers and other stakeholders of the strategic importance of retrospectives, by demonstrating their undeniable value as strategic investments in the team’s success.Break free from performance anxiety and become a guide who inspires teams to see retrospectives as essential milestones in their journey of continuous improvement and professional growth.Elevate your retrospectives game and solidify your role as a facilitator who creates inspiring changes for teams and galvanizes their collaboration and performance towards continuous improvement.
Overview
Section 1: Your First Steps
Lecture 1 Welcome!
Lecture 2 How This Course Works
Lecture 3 What Are Retrospectives?
Lecture 4 What Retrospectives are NOT
Lecture 5 Why Most Retrospectives Fail
Section 2: Module 1 – The structure of an agile retrospective
Lecture 6 Preparation is everything
Lecture 7 Phase 1 – Set the Stage
Lecture 8 What happens when you skip Phase 1
Lecture 9 Phase 2 – Gather Data
Lecture 10 What happens when you skip Phase 2
Lecture 11 Phase 3 – Generate Insights
Lecture 12 What happens when you skip Phase 3
Lecture 13 Phase 4 – Decide What to Do
Lecture 14 What happens when you skip Phase 4
Lecture 15 Phase 5 – Close the Retrospective
Lecture 16 What happens when you skip Phase 5
Lecture 17 Putting it all together
Section 3: Module 2 – Your facilitation matters
Lecture 18 Introduction
Lecture 19 Time management
Lecture 20 Your headspace is key
Lecture 21 Manage interpersonal dynamics
Lecture 22 Conflict vs Dialogue
Lecture 23 Key behaviors of effective facilitators
Section 4: Module 3 – Troubleshooting your Retrospectives
Lecture 24 Fixing common issues
Lecture 25 Not all problems are worth solving
Lecture 26 Solve on the scope of influence
Lecture 27 Running out of time
Lecture 28 Nothing to talk about
Lecture 29 Silent contributors
Lecture 30 Sucking the air out of the room
Lecture 31 Only talking about problems
Lecture 32 All fun and giggles
Section 5: Conclusion
Lecture 33 Congratulations!
Aspiring and seasoned Scrum Masters alike,Agile Coaches who want to reset their abilities and create more powerful retrospectives,Managers and Leaders who want to enable autonomous awesome teams
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