Retrospectives help to improve communication, productivity and quality of the team, identification and resolution of conflicts. This book has the tools you need to do it all, making projects successful.
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Have one retrospective per week. Unless you’re out of time — then have two.
Every team member brings a unique background and perspective. An effective retrospective creates a space where everyone feels comfortable, aligned, and ready to contribute to a better, more collaborative experience.
With this in mind, authors Paulo Caroli and Tainã Caetano Coimbra set out to make retrospectives even more impactful. Along the way, they discovered a key insight: a light, engaging, and fun approach is essential to running a great retrospective.
This complete and fully illustrated book gives you everything you need to run better retrospectives — with a wide variety of creative activities and ideas at your fingertips, so you can always choose the right one for your team.
But what is a FunRetro?
These are Retrospective activities to transform a group of people into a team in a fun and effective way!
“Lively and focused retrospectives have a better chance of achieving effective results. So I often link to funretrospectives.com as a great source of activity options and for the event as a whole… !
Now I have a useful answer to the inevitable question of where to find more about Retrospectives. I can recommend this book…” – by Diana Larsen, from the book’s preface.
What are the different types of Retrospective activities?
With explanations and examples of which type of FunRestrospectives, you’ll have access to a guide to planning and organizing your seven-step agenda. This book offers a toolkit with many ideas and activities.
These activities can be combined in a sequence or used individually in different contexts. To help you plan your Retrospective, this agenda outlines the seven steps you will take to achieve your goal:
- Energizers: activities to start off any meeting and get people energized.
- Check-in: activities to measure participants’ engagement and understand more about their feelings at the start of a meeting.
- Team building: activities to define ground rules and get a team started.
- Retrospectives: activities to look back and reflect on the past.
- Futurespectives: activities to look ahead and plan for the future.
- Filtering: activities to prioritize items for discussion.
- Check-out: activities to organize action items or collect feedback about the meeting.
What else will this book teach me?
Besides all the activities and the background learning you need, the authors also prepared tips to adapt your retrospectives for remote platforms, something that is so important nowadays.
About the authors
Paulo Caroli
Paulo Caroli is a passionate professional. Yes, passionate about innovations, entrepreneurship, digital products, projects, people, challenges, solutions and transformations.
The book Lean Inception brings together all his years of experience as a facilitator of inception workshops for several companies, as a Thoughtworks Principal Consultant.
Since 2006, he has focused his experience on Agile & Lean processes and practices, which is why his method has won many readers around the world. Lean Inception has already been released in four languages, in addition to being a best seller on Amazon!
As a software engineer, author, speaker and facilitator, Caroli has helped many people and companies make their projects come to life!
Tainã Caetano Coimbra
Tainã Caetano Coimbra is a software engineer passionate about continuous learning and improvement, with over ten years of industry experience as a developer, coach, mentor and facilitator.
Having worked with a number of teams in Brazil, Asia, Europe and North America, he has found great value in promoting team dynamics that elevate all members to their fullest power to be the best they can be.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of Pelotas and works at Split Software.
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