Distributed retrospectives made simple

distributed retrospective
  1. Everyone is connected to a video conferencing tool
  2. Everyone shares the same retrospective board (online)

It is simple like that.

The image below shows these two tools side by side.

distributed retrospective

I took a screenshot to share how I was participating on a distributed retrospective.

Besides these two shared tools, I was using a document editor to draft the notes before posting them on the fun retrospectives  distributed board.

Sometimes your team is not all in the same physical room. Deal with it. Choose a simple and effective tool to bring everyone together. Do keep the good practices! Keep doing the retrospectives.

Paulo Caroli

Paulo Caroli is an author, speaker, and consultant specializing in agile transformations, Lean Inception, and OKRs. With over 30 years of experience—including nearly a decade in Silicon Valley and 18 years at ThoughtWorks—he has helped organizations transition from project to product and from strategy to execution. Creator of the Lean Inception methodology and author of bestselling books like Lean Inception and Team OKR, Paulo is dedicated to empowering teams to align, validate, and deliver real business value.
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