Such a pleasure to end this week with an ATEM Friday Retro session, the last one for this year. A brief, regular retrospective session can benefit you and your team in so many ways. It can build trust among co-workers… Read More ›

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Introducing tech tools to an online group
Making your work visible is a central tenet of Agile projects. Sharing your work – showing your work to others, at all stages of the project – invites constructive input and active collaboration. It builds trust and stimulates new ideas…. Read More ›
Getting to know you, remotely
In designing the Friday Retro program, we wanted to encourage our retronauts to make meaningful connections with each other. That’s a really big ask in a group of 10 or more strangers. We’re using two tactics to foster those meaningful… Read More ›
Friday Retro kicks off
A few weeks ago I posted a crazy idea – what if we could run an Agile-style retrospective (‘retro’) meeting for a group of strangers from many different workplaces? Could it work? Would it help people to navigate this period… Read More ›
Designing a new kind of retro meeting
When everything is changing around you, every demand on your time and energy seems both urgent and important. Breaking that insta-response cycle, finding time for reflection and clarity, can be difficult. Talking to friends and colleagues recently, Sally and I… Read More ›