Agile Retrospectives can bring so much value. You just need to do them right! Check out this tools and advices to get on track.
Agile Retrospectives
As you begin to run your first Retrospectives, you will discover how the collective work of your team is, uncovering their key strengths and pinpointing areas for improvement. This step-by-step approach will help your team reach important goals faster, progressing towards crucial milestones and improving your business outcomes, including the
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The problem is not your team, or the process. The problem are your outputs. Based on an article by Leon Tranter. If you are part of a software development team that uses Agile methodologies, then you know that the key to your team’s continuous improvement in the long term
Remote Work
Agile is centered around boosting productivity, facilitating effective communication, and driving continuous improvement across all types of teams and industries. The greatest advantage is that its benefits extend far beyond the realm of software development, where it is most commonly used. But what exactly is Agile?##### It's a
Agile Retrospectives
One way in which many teams introduce Agile practicing is by running Retrospective sessions. These are intimate discussions where peers review the past work cycle regarding what went well, what didn't, and what could be improved. There's a growing trend of professional teams that leverage the
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Gathering your team to discuss how the past work cycle went is excellent, but it can easily turn into a blaming game, draining away any benefits and potentially hurting your team's health. These Retrospectives can go wrong if people's mindset isn't appropriate. That'
Agile Retrospectives
The software development industry has brought much wisdom to other sectors. Many good practices meant to reduce as much waste as possible while amplifying value for the customer and the organization are currently used in marketing, HR, sales, and business intelligence, just to name a few examples. One concrete example
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Are you aware of how much value your work adds up? Individuals and teams need to have a concrete idea of their impact in any business environment. But how do you measure value? At first thought, some could consider profit and value as synonyms. Equating how much revenue can be
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When talking about Jira, people generally think of its use in the software development and IT industry. Even though the Work Management version is intended to be used by teams from HR, marketing, finance, operations, legal, design, and sales, most of the collective imagination doesn't seem to catch
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As George Santayana once said: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. That is why in product and project management, there exist Post-Mortems and Agile Retrospective sessions. These practices, aside from being both reviews of delivered work, are different in essence and distinguishing them will be
Agile Retrospectives
The market won’t stop changing. Even the Agile Marketing Manifesto states that "To keep up with the speed and complexity of marketing today, we are adopting new ways of working." You can't afford to spend your hard-gained budget in tactics with little to no impact
Agile
With the growing trend of agile frameworks adoption among companies, one topic that draws more attention from beginners is how to properly conduct an Agile Retrospective. These sessions are a really effective way for teams to develop a continuous improvement approach that enables them to build better products and services.
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The SoftwareDevTools team considers Retrospectives so valuable that not only do we run them frequently, we have also developed a tool that makes it really easy to perform them. And there is also a whole section dedicated to them in this blog. You can say we are really into reviewing
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In our article The Perks of Being a Scrum Master - Developing soft skills and preventing anti-patterns, we stated how relevant the Scrum Master figure has become for the global market in the last 10 years. That trend relates to the fact that more and more companies want to be
Agile Retrospectives
Migrating your Jira deployment is a big deal. If your approach is not insightful enough, things can turn really sluggish. You can think of it as getting caught in quicksand: The more you struggle, the more you sink. That is why people in those types of emergencies require aid from
Agile Retrospectives
The team at Catapult Labs loves to run Retrospective sessions. We consider these ceremonies to be a cornerstone of the continuous improvement principle of Agile and always find them helpful to enhance processes and foresee potential blockers based on past sprints or iterations. We are not the only team that
Agile Retrospectives
The key point of doing Sprint Retrospectives is helping your team to keep nourishing a continuous improvement spirit in a concrete and fast manner to effectively implement its outcomes. Retrospectives purpose, in a high-level sense, is to “plan ways to increase quality and effectiveness”, as stated on Scrum.org, and