Ep. 42 | How to facilitate your team retrospective (with Joe Ziadeh)

Facilitating a retrospective is one tough cookie to crumble. But you don’t have to panic so much, because our hosts today, Vivek Khattri and Joe Ziadeh, will be giving you the information you need to successfully facilitate a retrospective. In this episode of The Agile Coach, Vivek and Joe will be exploring Esther Derby and Diana Larson's five stages of a retrospective and will be explaining them to you with their own flair.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Introduction to the 5 stages of a retrospective
• Stage 1: Set the stage
• Stage 2: Gather data
• Stage 3: Generate insight
• Stage 4: Decide what to do
• Stage 5: Close the retrospective

QUOTES

Joe: “Very first stage. And number one thing they call out, set the stage, if you show up panicked, if you're freaking out, they're going to be freaked out.”

Joe: “Next step, gathering the data, now look, if they have a bunch of data, great, have them bring in the data and then look at the data.”

Joe: “Now, we're going to go from just having data to gathering insights. So there's a difference between data and wisdom. Data is just information, wisdom, or the insights that you gather from that data.”

Joe: “Your job isn't to have the answer. Your job as a facilitator is to help them process through the framework. It's to help work them through the process so that they can solve these problems on their own.”

Joe: “The next stage is deciding what to do. So you take a list of all these experiments and you vote on them again.”

Joe: “Make sure that you celebrate. Let these people know that they accomplished something. And then document the experiments. Don't just do all of this work and say that was really great. And then walk out of this room and let all the experiments fall on the floor.”

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