Retrospective Workshop: Time to Improve

Only those who understand yesterday can ensure that tomorrow will be better.

Retrospectives are a key aspect of continuous improvement. Essentially, they are team meetings aimed at learning from the past. Participants review their collaboration over the past period, evaluating both what went well and the obstacles and challenges that arose. The team then analyzes the reasons for both successes and difficulties. This allows them to understand the root causes, take corrective action, and achieve genuine improvements, rather than merely treating the symptoms.

Advantages of retrospectives:

• Potential for optimization in team processes is identified in order to improve processes and increase efficiency.
• The team members communicate extensively. This reduces latent conflicts and fosters team building. In the retrospective, the team also addresses critical issues and begins to actively resolve them.
• Obstacles in processes and procedures are made transparent to the team and the organization.

Program & Content

After the course, participants will understand the process and key aspects of a retrospective. They will be able to effectively facilitate retrospectives to guide the team into a continuous improvement mode.

• Goals of Retrospectives
• The 5 phases of a retrospective
• Moderation of retrospectives
• Design your own retrospective
• Achieve continuous improvement
• Tips & Tricks, No-Gos

Target audience

• Specialists and managers
• Scrum Master
• People who moderate retrospectives or simply want to understand them better
• People who operate Kanban systems
• Scrum teams that want to implement the Kaizen philosophy through continuous improvement

Included services

• Course materials
• Photo report