Effective Agile Retrospectives
Your comprehensive guide on how to craft and facilitate impactful agile retrospectives.
A step-by-step blueprint in 4 weeks
This is a comprehensive course that teaches you everything you need, from structure to behaviors, to create and lead winning agile retrospectives
Whether you are new to retrospectives and looking to sharpen your skills or a more seasoned facilitator looking to create powerful retrospectives, this course is for you.
Before I tell you all about this course, let’s make sure you are a good fit.
Effective Agile Retrospectives is a 4-week course in which you will learn to elevate your agile retrospectives from that generic end of sprint conversation into immersive experiences that galvanize your team’s collaboration and performance.
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 or 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 Manager, 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.
You’re in the right place!
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.
Here’s what you’ll be able to do by the end of this program:
01.
Know the anatomy of a successful retrospective inside and out
via a deep understanding of the structure and components that make a retrospective truly effective.
02.
Troubleshoot a retrospective on the spot
by identifying the most important and surprisingly common patterns of ineffectiveness that can derail retrospectives and by applying the appropriate fixes.
03.
Keep retrospectives short and timely
by designing and selecting activities suitable for retrospectives and by mastering how to control time and interactions.
04.
Manage interpersonal dynamics and conflict
in a productive way, generating dialogue and making sure the retrospective stays on track by intervening with precision and confidence.
05.
Show up as a competent facilitator
by understanding the facilitator stance applicable to retrospectives and understanding how your mindset can positively impact it.
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100% Online and Self-Paced
A new module drops every week, for 4 weeks.
You can take the course at whatever pace suits you. Your access to the course doesn’t expire and you will receive any upcoming updates and future improvements in content. And whenever we have lives and community events, you’re always invited.
What's Inside the Program
Module 0
Your First Steps
Gain a crystal-clear understanding of what retrospectives truly are, what they are not, and uncover the common pitfalls that lead to their failure. This module will equip you with the insights to dismantle common misconceptions and reset the foundation of your knowledge, enabling you to conduct retrospectives that drive meaningful change.
Module 1
The Structure of An Agile Retrospective
You’ll learn the essential building blocks and the strategic sequence they should follow to maximize effectiveness. You will have an understanding of the ‘why’ behind each step, and what risks you face when these components are misused or omitted. This module is your guide to constructing retrospectives that are structured with precision and resilient to common setbacks.
Module 2
Your Facilitation Matters
Learn important techniques and essential behaviors required to lead effective retrospectives. We’ll demystify the role you play as a facilitator and explore ways to effectively manage time and interpersonal dynamics, as well as how to confidently and proactively navigate conflict during retrospectives.
Module 3
Troubleshooting Your Retrospectives
Gain insight on the most common issues you can run into when facilitating retrospectives and develop the ability to identify and fix them in real-time, as well as the foresight to anticipate them and prevent these potential issues before they arise.
Meet your Instructor!
Petula Guimaraes
Coach and Founder of AllThingsAgile
Her passion for framework-neutral Agility as well as her firm belief that change starts with the individual and their own leadership discovery led her to eventually create All Things Agile. There she coaches and teaches emergent Agile leaders on how to break from the mold of frameworks and roles, simplify and positively transform how people work together.
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Want to see the detailed curriculum?
We get it. You might want to experience Petula as your guide and dissect the curriculum. You can do that!
Ready to take a look at what each lesson looks like and watch a preview of lessons?
The materials are simple: a computer, phone or tablet with internet access to watch and read the content.
Other than that, your success depends on you applying the content of the classes in the real world.
You will receive an email helping you get set up with a login in our platform if you are new to it. If you are already one of our learners, you will see the new course appearing in your dashboard. As soon as your login is ready you have access to the introductory materials in the program. The content drips one module per week. There is a total of 4 modules, hence 4 weeks to complete the program.
The course is designed to maximize your learning and retention by releasing one module each week over four weeks. This drip schedule aligns with the best practices of educational psychology, which suggest that spaced repetition and incremental learning enhance understanding and recall. By receiving content in manageable segments, you’re able to fully absorb and apply each lesson before moving on to the next. This approach prevents the overwhelm that can come from too much information at once and supports the building of strong, lasting competencies.
Yes! Agile retrospectives are a tool for team learning and development that leads to heightened performance and project success.
The course is designed to help anyone become a facilitator of well-structured, well-facilitated retrospectives. Other known roles that take our similar live workshops and courses are project managers, change managers, directors, quality assurance analyst and software developers. So long and you have the curiosity and willingness to apply this content with real teams, you will collect great results and become a skilled facilitator of agile retrospectives.
Yes. All our courses provide you with a certificate of completion at the end. To have one automatically issued to you, you must go through every single lesson and reach their individual completion, including quizzes and activities.
You can then share it on your social media, with your employer and use it as proof of your time well invested in self-development.