Team Retrospectives

Here is the retrospective output from the teams:

What did we learn working in our teams?

• Don’t get frustrated early

• How to coach my executives on Agile and potentially anything

• If you align on mission and method you can have a large group in sub-teams

• Diversity of resources is incredible and exciting

• There’s a lot more to being an Agile Coach beyond Agile.

• Smaller groups were productive with less conflict

• Working in a new team is hard

• Scrum is hard to apply against open topics

• Team size makes a difference (Small – quick and decisive but lacks diversity)

• Working together on something is a better learning experience than anything else.

• To question any topic is a good thing

• I’m not alone

• Value of diversity

• Capture and publishing output

• Big team = a lot of good output

• We didn’t really do Scrum

• Intelligent discourse is not waste

What if anything do we want do beyond this retreat?

• keep in touch

• Use and evolve the product

• Just do it – put practices and discussed into use and share feedback

• Add to and iterate the Agile coaching path

• Put results in work press blog pictures and text.

• Explore further the bits of useful information captured within the two days

• Fulfil ideas learned such as fulfil pilot scheme

• Gather feedback from the community

• Apply lessons learned

• Refine it and use it

• Review the topics covered

• I’ve signed up for the Scrum Master Exchange – very excited.  

What did you like about the event?

• Location, weather and making friends

• Community

• The event format

• Location and Venue

• The mix of attendees

• Meeting new people

• Networking including CSC’s and CST’s

• Hearing about Scrum in other organisations

• The people and knowledge

• Food and Venue

• Brainstorming on topics, had enough time to go deep in 4 sprints

• The conversation and networking

• The workshop topics 

What would you change about the event?

• More open space session (shorter – 30 minutes).

• We didn’t know much about any of the leisure activities

• Have a clearer view of how the topics move forward after the event

• Bring in more been there done that experts

• More free time and longer more frequent breaks

• A keynote speaker would have been good

• More time to understand prep for topics prior to retreats.

• Team forming (no pre topics)

• More space for experiential sessions outside of open space (coaching dojo)

• Shorter open space sessions

• More free time

• More time for workshops, discussions and lightening talks

• Better method for generating topics for sprints and more time to assess their value / output expectation

• Less sprinting time