Agile Scrum Retrospective Meetings (in 5 Easy Steps)

This lecture gives you some background on the meeting before you dive into the 5-step framework. It gives you some background like what it is for, who you should invite etc.

This gives you an quick intro of the five steps in the meeting framework. This lecture gets you set up so you're properly prepared for the rest of this section.

Welcome to the first step of the the meeting! Set The Stage. Here you introduce the agenda and get them to start talking. This lesson shows you what to do in this part of the meeting.

You guessed it! This is the second step of the meeting: Gather Data. We'll cover what this step is about in this lesson. In short, it's about finding out WHAT happened since last time and to find as much data about that as possible.

So for the third part, It's time to analyze the data the group found. You'll learn how to look deeper into problems to find root causes and turning problems into solutions.

Part four of the meeting: The Actions step. Here you'll learn how to get the group to pick the most important insights from the previous step and then turn them into useful and valuable Action goals and then how to use them.

Finally, the last part of the meeting! You're almost done learning about the framework! Here you'll look at how to best wrap up the meeting and run a quick feedback session.

A nice and short summary how to design your meetings.

Let's look at creating your meeting. This lecture gives you an overview of this section of the course and talks about why you should spend some time to prepare it properly.

In this lesson, you'll learn what you should focus on when planning your meeting, specifically the groups day-to-day work. You'll learn techniques for finding input to your meeting based on that!

Another important part when creating your meeting is to look into the personalities of the team itself. The reason for that is so you can tailor the meeting based on that. This lesson gives you lots of ideas for how to do that.

Learn what makes a great meeting purpose great + examples of both good and bad purposes.

Let's look an an actual agenda! This is a case study of an agenda used by a developer team (Scrum/Agile) and shows you each agenda item in details, step by step.

Armed with input from the previous steps (the team, their work and so on...). It's time to create the agenda! Here you'll learn how create your own awesome agenda, based on the framework.

This is an agenda template you can use to start out with when you create your own agenda.

A short and sweet summary how to prepare your meeting.

Welcome back! Let's kick off this section with a message about switching your style and some helpful hints what this part of this part is about

The agenda is key to running you meeting. This part shows you how and when you should use it to make you meeting a success

Some people are prone to dominate, ramble or take over the meeting. Some people are just shy or quiet. This part shows you how to handle personalities and behavior that drags the meeting down. Like the famous rock star or the naysayer

What are the Ground Rules, how do you create them and how should you use them when running the meeting?

This lecture walks you through how to prepare the room. You'll know how to arrange the seating (and how not to!) and what tools you must have available!

In this part, you'll know what meeting facilitation is and then shows you some facilitation methods you can use to manage the group and to help people get a chance to speak

Most meetings are about making decisions, so it's important to know how you can help the group reach decisions quickly and without any reservations. Here you'll learn some really great methods how to do that!

This useful tool is crucial to keeping the meeting focused on the current topic. Here is how you use it effectively.

After this lecture, you'll know how to pinpoint where your team are in terms of performance. This gives you lots of input how you should use that to adapt your style based on that. Not many people know about this, so this is a treat!

Asking the right questions gives your valuable insights and digs deeper. This lecture shows you how you how to do that and also examples of awesome questions you can use right away

At this time in the course, you have studied pretty much everything there is to know about this and it's time to look at how you can handle yourself. You'll first learn how to control yourself and your emotions in the meeting. Then we'll cover how you should interact with the team. Great stuff!

A quick and easy summary of how to run your meetings.

This book is exclusive to students who have taken this course! 

It's a 20-page eBook with handpicked meeting activities and how you use them. Feel free to use this in your meetings and good luck!

Here is the cheat sheet for the entire course. Extremely helpful in your meetings. Download it now.