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''Retrospectives are increasingly a common element of agile ways of working and part of every Scrum Master’s toolbox. And whilst their effectiveness and benefits are widely recognized, it is worth experimenting with different flavors of applied formats and facilitation techniques. In this blog, I share a recent experience from retrospectives conducted with a team in the media industry where the idea has been to look back from someone else’s perspective.
 
''Retrospectives are increasingly a common element of agile ways of working and part of every Scrum Master’s toolbox. And whilst their effectiveness and benefits are widely recognized, it is worth experimenting with different flavors of applied formats and facilitation techniques. In this blog, I share a recent experience from retrospectives conducted with a team in the media industry where the idea has been to look back from someone else’s perspective.
 
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== THE INCREASED POWER OF TALKING ABOUT EACH OTHER ==
 
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Having spoken about the mechanics to allow you to replicate this approach and test it with the teams you work with, it is worth highlighting the benefits of this way of facilitating a retrospective. It boils down to the emotional effects of hearing from others about how we felt. It creates the right tension between seeing our own view validated and a possible gap between what we feel and how we appear to others. Learning from this can be substantial if team members open up fully to what they hear. We experience that others do notice us and our feelings which is likely to increase the team cohesion and inclusiveness. We feel heard and supported which is important especially when dealing with the challenges we face. It can also help us to become more self-aware by recognising that sometimes our behaviors or simply our body language can send signals which may discourage others and/or create a negative aura around us. In particular, if not intended, we can take measures to address these behaviours and learn to deal with our obstacles in a more positive and pro-active manner, thus reducing the effect on other team members. But why don’t you go ahead and use your next retrospective to try this out yourself.
 
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Dr Marcin Remarczyk is a London-based Business Psychologist and an Associate Director at Cognizant Business Consulting[https://www.cognizant.com/consulting].
 

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A Lego Retro

How do you know you’ve made it as a Change Agent? When your client starts paying you to play with Lego 😉

On serious note, I recently a facilitated an Agile Retrospective with Lego as the medium. (A retrospective is a regular meeting that a project team holds to discuss what has been successful over a prior time period, what could be improved, and how to incorporate the successes and improvements in future.)

The team had just completed a two-week Sprint (set period for a iteration). I kept it simple with the following format:


“Guess Who?” a retrospective from a different perspective

A guest post from Dr Marcin Remarczyk [1] on a new retrospective technique encouraging empathy…

Retrospectives are increasingly a common element of agile ways of working and part of every Scrum Master’s toolbox. And whilst their effectiveness and benefits are widely recognized, it is worth experimenting with different flavors of applied formats and facilitation techniques. In this blog, I share a recent experience from retrospectives conducted with a team in the media industry where the idea has been to look back from someone else’s perspective.

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