Retrospectives: Variety Is Key | #78

I strongly recommend high variation in both format and facilitator of retrospectives. So let me sketch, as quickly as possible, the retro-scheme I see the most of, and don’t care for. It’s got four columns. "Didn’t go well". "Went Well", "Action Items", "Kudos". Sometimes they change the text of the columns. One person, the same person each time, leads the meeting, by gathering stickies, virtual or otherwise, and plunking them on a board in the right column. That person typically groups the ones that seem closely related. Now we "process" them. This involves reading them each out loud, looking around the room, sometimes identifying the author and asking them what they meant. We get a chorus of "yes" or a cluster of "no", sometimes a little discussion. Very occasionally, an active disagreement.

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