Retrospectives Antipatterns

Improve Every Retrospective! Real Solutions for EveryTeam Leader, Facilitator, and Participant

Retrospectives are indispensable for continuous learning andimprovement in Lean, Agile, DevOps, and other contexts, but most ofus have suffered through at least one retrospective that was awaste of time, or worse. Now, leading agile coach Aino Vonge Corryidentifies 24 reasons that retrospectives fail and shows how toovercome each of them.

Using the familiar patterns approach, RetrospectivesAntipatterns introduces antipatterns related tostructure, planning, people, distributed teams, and more. Corryshares traps she's encountered and mistakes she's made over morethan a decade of leading retrospectives and then presents provensolutions. With her insights and guidance, you can run enjoyableretrospectives that deliver concrete improvements and realvalue—or at the very least recognize when you are making the samemistake as the author!

• Create a common language, actionable solutions, and provenplans for solving the retrospective problems you'll encounter mostoften
• Recognize symptoms, assess tradeoffs, and refactor your currentsituation into something better
• Plan more effectively: decide who should attend and facilitate,when to schedule your retrospective, and how much time to setaside
• Handle people problems: deal with negativity, silence,distrust, disillusionment, loudmouths, and culturaldifferences
• Facilitate better virtual retrospectives, with tips for onlineretrospectives included in each antipattern