The ATEM Friday Retro meeting on 2 October 2020 was a bit different from the usual. We started with a live video cross to an office building on Collins Street in Melbourne’s CBD, where three peregrine falcon chicks were hatching…. Read More ›
show your work
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 ›
Adapting the Agile retro model
You may already be familiar with Agile methodology, which is where the ‘retro’ or ‘retrospective’ format comes from. In an Agile project team you would normally meet at the end of a sprint – a specific piece of work –… 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 ›
