What I like
- Good interaction with audience
- Good cooperation between speakers
- Nice slides
- Clear introduction
- Practical learnings (e.g. idea of questions in hat + sometimes run retros without customers)
- Mixture of theory & actual experience what happened
- Anti-patterns
- Nice slides
- Interactive
- Good build-up
- Slides
- Using timeline in the session
- Speakers
- Great examples
- Good preparation
- Real life example
- You do the presentation as a balanced pair
- You had nice examples & slides
- You involved the audience
- The retro idea is great, everyone experienced the session. Keep it up! You guys are cool!
- Great talk, nice of Laurens to share his experience, namely what went wrong and what we can do to prevent it
- Flavouring the retrospective
- Valuable session!
- Learned I'm not the only one running boring retrospectives
- Learned some tips to keep the retros "alive and kicking"
- Good summary
- Some good interesting tips, also for advanced audience, though the presentation is mostly at an introductory level
- Nice photos
- Well focused and practiced.
- Stories from real experience
- Incorporating some retrospective activities was a good idea
- Lots of good tips, good vibe, you're a fun team
- Tempts me to more with retrospective (or to start doing them)
- Interactive, forced participation, good presenters
- Lots of energy
- Practical tips and real life examples
- Theory and practice all in one!
- Well presented
To improve
- Add the prime directive of retrospectives
- May add more solutions from your own experience, to solve the anti patterns, instead of describing activities from the book
- Cut down some slides to fit in the timeframe
- Uncertainty about what "scramble" means - How to use the peg?
- Give advice on what facilitator should do
- Explain how to manage conflicts within the team (shy, stubborn,... people)
- Keep the time in mind
- Don't start earlier
- Shorten the intro, one hour is not much
- Add basics like Prime Directive, trust...
- Gather ideas on different formats/techniques
- Less talk, more interaction
- Organise better to allotted time
- Don't try to do this presentation in 60 minutes
- If I won the ball
- Read some examples from the cookbook
- Don't do everything we suggested!
- Your presentation is very good, be wary and try to incorporate only the thinghs that really mean something to you. Otherwise quality might become diluted
- Less theory
- More cookbook stuff: real life tips & tricks to apply in retros
- Make it more interactive, sometimes too much a one-way presentation
- Get rid of the mixed font sizes & colors on the sheets
- Faster pace
- More interaction
- Too much talking and showing slides. It became a bit boring at times, despite the excellent content
- The presenters used many food -related analogies, which made me very hungry
- Skip the Japanese
- Drop the Japanese :-)
- Improve the first 15 minutes: it's too general
- I came to the session because I wanted to improve and believe retrospectives are a great tool. Just skip the 10 minutes on Lean Thinking. That's just one "implementation" of continuous improvement. Skipping that would make it perfect
- More room for practicing
- More room for exchanging experiences (some people also already do regular retrospectives)