All things good
- Mark, Helen, Ben and Zia were great.
- Great Food.
- Great team work – lets keep working together – Scrum Gathering 2015?
- Wereworlf and other games were great.
- Exercises worked very well.
- The residential aspect really worked.
- How should we celebrate the success?
- Hotel was really good and Carly and team were helpful in making everything run smoothly.
- Great use of visual media.
- Stuarts drawings are amazing.
- Stuart + Drawings were good.
- Realised value of 2 sleeps.
- Well done Ben – what an awesome job as a ScrumMaster.
- Ben was ace!
- Hotel, Food, Location all great
- Hotel was nice.
- Just enough planning for the event worked well.
- Thank you to Dan for taking valuable time to come over and support us.
- Conference venue was awesome.
- Very high level of engagement (Ben this was yours could you elaborate?)
- Nice to have the CSCs/CSTs present and participating.
- Location was well researched – thank you Helen for the running around and the point person on logistics.
- Great attendee collaboration from Day one.
- Atmosphere and pace created was just right.
- Seed one team member for next retreat for support
- Brown Sauce 🙂 Daniel !
- Communication strategy throughout the retreat worked very well.
- Setting up WordPress
- Deep dives over two days worked better than all on one daye
All things not so good
- Hotel Accommodations could have been better (Zia and Daniel experienced lack of room cleanliness)
- No european retreat set (yet)
- Moving people is hard!
All things that could have been better
- Suggested Activities @ night / tourist sights of interest.
- More team time less Open Space.
- 3 Full days might have been better.
- CSC/CST Dinner or Social (to get to know/catch up with this community).
- Better use of / creation of email distribution list
- Attendees heard saying they would have preferred a bit more slack in the schedule.
- More free/activity time in the schedule.
- Werewolf and other games should have been on the agenda.
- Was the concept of retreat well understood? Some people were too concerned about completing as many items as possible rather than going deep.
- We should have included the agenda on with the lanyard.
- Needed more Sharpies.
- Bigger posters for open space
- Clear COA’s are important (Ben this was yours – can you elaborate)?
- Need ICE!?
- Pre-retreat workshop facilitators need to stay behind and participate.
- Maybe more data arch through before the event. (Ben this is one of yours can you elaborate)?
Key Themes
- Location was near perfect – Peaceful, outdoor time, spacious etc
- Retreat Illustration worked very well
- Team games were well received – should be part of the agenda
- Find better ways to get people to move!
- Propose more slack time during retreat (perhaps extend retreat to 3 days)?
- Suggestions for things to do to unwind
- We found we needed more stationary (or better tracking of)