This is retrospective facilitation

Join us on April 23rd and 24th for an open space dedicated to Agile Retrospectives! https://bit.ly/AgileRetrospectivesOpen --- Music by krackatoa https://freemusicarchive.org/music/krackatoa/running_with_wise_fools_1977/Running_with_wise_fools

This is a short reflection on how Cognitive Edge's sense making framework can help your Agile Retrospective. I wrote a short post https://teotti.com/cynefin-helps-agile-retrospectives/

In this episode we have Aino, she's a teacher, a technical conference editor and retrospectives facilitator. We’ll talk about 3 anti patterns from the book she wrote: “retrospectives anti patterns”. http://thisisretrospectivefacilitation.com/e/23

Paul is an agile coach, he started the Agile Coach Camp initiative, we met at the Retrospective Facilitator Gathering last year. I’ve asked him what his focus is in retrospectives given the recent shift to online plus lessons learned during his experience facilitating retrospectives. http://thisisretrospectivefacilitation.com/e/22

Gerardo has been a facilitator since 2004, now a board member of IAF he will tell us about his journey, different styles of facilitation, tips about affinity mapping and the upcoming mentoring program that IAF is starting. http://thisisretrospectivefacilitation.com/e/21

This is a short reflection announcing the retro on retros initiative

A short reflection on personal retrospectives.

Have you ever experienced people in your retrospective talking past—or over—each other? In this episode we’ll tackle that with Karen Gimnick. http://thisisretrospectivefacilitation.com/e20

In this episode we focus on sudden remote retrospectives. What if you were used to physical retrospective and now your office is all remote? What are some tips for setting up an effective remote retrospectives? That’s the focus of this interview with Mark Kilby. thisisretrospectivefacilitation.com/e/19

Happy world retrospective day! A world wide event to promote the power of retrospectives. Head to https://worldretrospectiveday.com to find an event near you!

Gitte share her insights on how to avoid boring and useless retrospectives. Remembering we operate in a complex adaptive system, themed retrospectives, external facilitators and more. http://thisisretrospectivefacilitation.com/e/18

A short reflection on the upcoming world retrospective day 2020 http://worldretrospectiveday.com/

No Paul didn't do a retrospective with the Beatles, but the title seems to fit given the example he gave about a technique called ORSC™ (organization and relationship systems coaching). How you coach the Beatles is different then coaching John, Paul, Ringo and George individually. Paul shares stories about ORSC™ and his facilitation journey. https://thisisretrospectivefacilitation.com/e/17

Emotional intelligence, hope, mindfulness, and compassion help a person reverse the damage of chronic stress and build great leadership relationships. The Positive and Negative Emotional Attractors inspire sustained, desired change and learning at many levels. In this episode I'll chat with Kevin Callahan that will tell us how to practically use PEA and NEA. https://thisisretrospectivefacilitation.com/e/16

Jay and Kirsten run a monthly Hacking remote facilitation community of practice, in this episode we'll ask their secret to make remote retrospectives more effective. http://thisisretrospectivefacilitation.com/e/15

Interviewing Elise Keith author of "Where the action is" a book about meetings that make or break your organization. She'll share some insights on how to make our retrospectives even more effective considering the meeting performance maturity model, core competencies. http://thisisretrospectivefacilitation.com/e/14

A short reflection on choosing a retrospective framework instead of activities.

Jutta wrote a book about retrospectives for organizational change. In this episode I ask her what drove her to write the book and what challenges she faced facilitating retrospectives for organizational change. https://thisisretrospectivefacilitation.com/episodes/retrospectives-for-organizational-change

A short reflection on roles in retrospectives

Have you ever heard of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF)? In this episode we interview Karen and Wiebke about "Discovering retrospectives" a workshop they run together with Edith Steiner-Janesch at the European Conference of the International Association of Facilitators

A 5 minute reflection on retrospective topics. https://thisisretrospectivefacilitation.com/episodes/reflection-on-voting-in-retrospectives

The retrospective facilitators gathering (RFG) is an annual open space conference--started in 2002--where we discuss retrospective facilitation techniques and everything that connects to it. Why would you spend one week on a conference dedicated to retrospective facilitation? I attended this year's (2019) and in this episode I chat with 4 others attendees and we will tell you what we got out of it.

In this episode I have three guests and they collaborated in facilitating a retrospective for multiple teams for a total of 60 people. As you might expect they split the groups and used nested diamonds of participatory decision making (from Kaner’s book). They wrote a detailed blog post https://www.agile42.com/en/blog/2018/09/05/how-we-facilitated-all-hands-retrospective-60-people-three-hours/ but I wanted to ask a few more questions. Why would you embark on such an endeavor, what did they learn and what recommendations they have for facilitators about to handle a group this large

Do you ever find your retrospectives only handle business as usual items? It can do more then that and our guest today is Adam Light which for the last 5 years has been using Toyota Kata concepts to achieve that. https://thisisretrospectivefacilitation.com/episodes/beyond-retrospectives-using-toyota-learning-kata

Why do we need a book about retrospectives? In this episode Pat tells us about the book he wrote about retrospective facilitation and share some insights from his experience.

In this episode I chat with Dan Greene. He was an F18 Navy pilot for 10 years and then started working in the tech industry for companies like Twitter and Google. He tells us his experience with debriefings and a culture of feedback that starts with Navy training. Then I ask him how the debriefing concept translated to his career outside the military. Music used in intro/outro is by Krakatoa https://krackatoa.bandcamp.com/album/running-with-wise-fools

In this episode Jon Schneider a fellow Pivot working on the Java Spring team tells us about action items generated during after action review (AAR) in a war zone. He tells us how tactical cycles constantly changes and how the teams collaborated and used ingenuity to adapt and circumvent situations--only apparently--outside their control. Music used in intro/outro is by Krakatoa https://krackatoa.bandcamp.com/album/running-with-wise-fools

We often skip retrospectives in our practices. What happens when you skip a debriefing in a war-zone? In this episode we interview a USMC war veteran and reflect about similarities between retrospectives and military debriefings. Music used in intro/outro is by Krakatoa https://krackatoa.bandcamp.com/album/running-with-wise-fools

Does your retrospective only tackle low hanging fruit? What about the harder issues? In this episode we’ll hear Joanne's approach using double loop learning. Music used in intro/outro is by Krakatoa https://krackatoa.bandcamp.com/album/running-with-wise-fools

What’s the end goal of a retrospective? I am gonna give you a little spoiler the answer is not to put stuff in three columns and fix all the sad items. But today we’ll hear George Dinwittie’s answer. Music used in intro/outro is by Krakatoa https://krackatoa.bandcamp.com/album/running-with-wise-fools

In this episode we talk with David Horowitz about the challenges--and advantages--of remote retrospectives. Music used in intro/outro is by Krakatoa https://krackatoa.bandcamp.com/album/running-with-wise-fools

In this episode we talk with Diana Larsen about the origins and reasons for the 5 steps framework. Music used in intro/outro is by Krakatoa https://krackatoa.bandcamp.com/album/running-with-wise-fools

In this episode we talk with Linda Rising about introducing changes to our retrospective facilitation and how the latest neuroscience research can help. Music used in intro/outro is by Krakatoa https://krackatoa.bandcamp.com/album/running-with-wise-fools

In this episode we talk with Ryan Latta about his journey becoming a retrospective facilitator. Music used in intro/outro is by Krakatoa https://krackatoa.bandcamp.com/album/running-with-wise-fools

In this first episode we talk with Esther Derby about what a retrospective really is and the role of the facilitator. Music used in intro/outro is by Krakatoa https://krackatoa.bandcamp.com/album/running-with-wise-fools

Listen to our 60 seconds preview Music used in intro/outro is by Krakatoa https://krackatoa.bandcamp.com/album/running-with-wise-fools