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Retrospectives Antipatterns

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Retrospectives Antipatterns

how easily a retrospective can be inefficient. If you don’t follow the idea of a retrospective and only go through the motions, you will waste time.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/retrospective-antipatterns.html

5 stages of a retrospective

Setting the Stage Intro, theme, follow up on previous action points

Gather Data Collect data about how the team is working together

Generate Insights Find the causes behind the issues, understand and learn

Decide what to do Find a few action points or experiments to try in the near future

Close the Retrospective Make sure there is a concrete plan for the action points, outro

https://martinfowler.com/articles/retrospective-antipatterns.html

refactored solution is to use an activity called In the Soup, where you ask the team to divide the things they are discussing into things they can do something about, things they can influence, and things that are in the soup.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/retrospective-antipatterns.html

When things are in the soup, they are a part of life that you cannot change. Your time is better spent accepting and finding a way to adapt to the situation. Or changing your situation by removing yourself from the soup

https://martinfowler.com/articles/retrospective-antipatterns.html

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