Talk: Retrospectives for Distributed Teams
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John Barratt
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Retrospectives for Distributed Teams
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We all know successful retrospectives are a key part of any successful agile team or in fact any Organisation for that matter, but most of the facilitation methods lend themselves to being face to face. During this interactive session, I plan to go through some tips and tricks on how to make distributed retrospectives more engaging. We will also try out some of the free tools during the session
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We all know successful retrospectives are a key part of any successful agile team or in fact any Organisation for that matter, but most of the facilitation methods lend themselves to being face to face. During this interactive session, I plan to go through some tips and tricks on how to make distributed retrospectives more engaging. The talk will cover the following aspects: Distributed Teams - New or reinforced knowledge that relationships are the focus to creating a high performing team Tools and Techniques - Several tools to experiment with along with a couple of techniques Icebreakers - A new focus on early interaction in meetings and several experiments to try Relationship Coaching - A coaching tool that helps teams review the relationships they have with the team Real world - Examples of when and how these tools have been used in the past By the end of this session, you will have some new ideas to try with your distributed teams as well as a couple of simple icebreakers to help with increased collaboration and input. Longer term it will increase your confidence in what is possible even with a heavily distributed team.
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