Retreat Organisers Retrospective

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)?

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