Look Backwards to Go Forwards: It's Retro Time
summary
Practical recipe: prepare a room or digital board, 90-minute retro every six weeks, brainstorm on sticky notes, vote to pick four topics, discuss each, then separately decide concrete actions and assign owners, plus recap last retro’s actions. Uses digital tools — Trello Miro Microsoft Whiteboard — and scales to ~8–12 attendees (up to ~20); handle global time zones by rotating meeting times. Watch for discussion domination and serious conflict, which may need an outside facilitator.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:05Retrospectives matter
- 3:34What is a retro
- 5:23Preparing a 90-min retro
- 7:04Brainstorming with sticky notes
- 8:25Voting priorities
- 9:49Focused team discussions
- 12:40Actionable solutions
- 14:06Concluding next steps
- 16:35Digital tools for retros
- 17:40Adapting for distributed teams
- 21:53Handling time zones
- 24:21Retro best practices recap
- 25:04Q&A on inter-team retros
- 26:50Red flags in facilitation
- 28:11Scaling retros for small teams
- 29:04Closing thoughts
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