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|a Improve Every Retrospective! Real Solutions for Every Team Leader, Facilitator, and Participant Aino has shared a robust, curated list of anti-patterns and how to avoid them. And she has shared so much more than tips and techniques. You will find a goldminewith precious nuggets, including her personal experiences, effective facilitation resources, and pointers for extracting yourself and your team when youre stuck. ... Diana Larsen, co-author, Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great Retrospectives are indispensable for continuous learning and improvement in Lean, Agile, DevOps, and other contexts. But too many organizations run retrospectives in name only and dont get the value they expected. Now, leading facilitator Aino Vonge Corry identifies 24 reasons retrospectives fail, and shows how to overcome each of them. Using the familiar patterns approach, Retrospectives Antipatterns introduces antipatterns related to structure, planning, people, distributed teams, and more. Corry shares traps shes encountered over more than a decade of leading retrospectives and presents proven solutions. With her insights and guidance, you can run retrospectives that deliver concrete improvements and real valuenot just once, but every time. Find a common language, actionable solutions, and proven plans for solving the retrospective problems youll encounter most often Recognize symptoms, assess tradeoffs, and refactor your current situation into something better Get structure right: optimize activities and agendas, improve communication flow, and more Plan more effectively: decide who should attend and facilitate, when to schedule your retrospective, and how much time to set aside Handle people problems: deal with negativity, silence, distrust, disillusionment, loudmouths, and cultural differences
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