Unlocking Retrospectives

[presentation]
by
Ryan Latta
Summary: 

Retrospectives empower teams to learn and improve. But many teams fail to reach their true learning potential. Ryan was part of a team that held retrospectives for a year and a half to fix one line of code. Through the story of this team, he will show you how they turned their retrospectives from a meeting with meaningless action items to one that accomplished a meaningful improvement. Ryan will explore the resistance that was met and how it was overcome. He will show how to shift to a hypothesis-driven retrospective that to guides specific improvements and learning goals. His team made significant changes to their retrospectives and were rewarded with a radical improvement. Breaking through their retrospective impediments and finally embracing a learning mindset empower Ryan's team to fix the legacy line of code that had held the team back for over year. This new found power gave his team confidence in their tests, reduced support issues, and gave the team a win to celebrate. Ryan will give you the same ideas he used to unlock his team's retrospectives: Improving only one thing at a time, using hypotheses to guide improvements, and using different retrospective techniques to get different outcomes.

About the Presenter

Ryan Latta is a coach who is interested in working with people who want to use software to reach their customers. He's deeply fascinated about creating teams that are relentless and accomplished in having real impact. He brings years of agile and lean experience to help coach teams and companies on how they can best get the results they want. Most teams tell him that working together has been the most rewarding professional experience they've ever had. Ryan enjoys engaging with industry and community professionals on the challenges of leveraging software in business.

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