retrospective agenda for a new team – role expectations

7 Oct 2015 | FunRetro

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I just finished facilitating a one hour remote retrospective for a team on the beginning of its existence. Please find below the sequence of activities used.

remote-retrospective

team on the remote meeting

1. Energizer : One two ping four pong

This was specially useful to test the team ability to handle a remote meeting

2. Set the context

The team talked about the specific context for the meeting

3. Prime Directive

Cooperation is the act of working with others and acting together to accomplish a job. Team is a partnership of unique people who bring out the very best in each other, and who know that even though they are wonderful as individuals, they are even better together. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.’ – from the FunRetrospective book

4. Check in – One Word

5. Main course – Role Expectations Matrix

Transerviços

activity result

6. Filtering – Tell and cluster

7. Check out – Note to Self

 

 

 

 

 

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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