Retrospectives Antipatterns

✍ Scribed by Aino Vonge Corry

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 278
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Improve Every Retrospective! Real Solutions for Every Team Leader, Facilitator, and Participant
“. . . Aino has shared a robust, curated list of antipatterns and how to avoid them. . . . And she has shared so much more than tips and techniques. You will find a gold mine--with precious nuggets, including her personal experiences, effective facilitation resources, and pointers for extracting yourself and your team when you're stuck.”
--From the Foreword by Diana Larsen, co-author, Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
Retrospectives are indispensable for continuous learning and improvement in Lean, Agile, DevOps, and other contexts, but most of us have suffered through at least one retrospective that was a waste of time, or worse. Now, leading agile coach Aino Vonge Corry identifies 24 reasons that retrospectives fail and shows how to overcome each of them.

Using the familiar “patterns” approach, Retrospectives Antipatterns introduces antipatterns related to structure, planning, people, distributed teams, and more. Corry shares traps she's encountered and mistakes she's made over more than a decade of leading retrospectives and then presents proven solutions. With her insights and guidance, you can run enjoyable retrospectives that deliver concrete improvements and real value--or at the very least recognize when you are making the same mistake as the author!

• Create a common language, actionable solutions, and proven plans for solving the retrospective problems you'll encounter most often
• Recognize symptoms, assess tradeoffs, and refactor your current situation into something better
• Plan more effectively: decide who should attend and facilitate, when to schedule your retrospective, and how much time to set aside
• Handle “people” problems: deal with negativity, silence, distrust, disillusionment, loudmouths, and cultural differences
• Facilitate better “virtual” retrospectives, with tips for online retrospectives included in each antipattern

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✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
The Story Begins
Part I: Structural Antipatterns
Chapter 1 Wheel of Fortune
Context
General Context
Antipattern Solution
Consequences
Symptoms
Refactored Solution
Online Aspect
Personal Anecdote
Chapter 2 Prime Directive Ignorance
Context
General Context
Antipattern Solution
Consequences
Symptoms
Refactored Solution
Online Aspect
Personal Anecdote
Chapter 3 In the Soup
Context
General Context
Antipattern Solution
Consequences
Symptoms
Refactored Solution
Online Aspect
Personal Anecdote
Chapter 4 Overtime
Context
General Context
Antipattern Solution
Consequences
Symptoms
Refactored Solution
Online Aspect
Personal Anecdote
Chapter 5 Small Talk
Context
General Context
Antipattern Solution
Consequences
Symptoms
Refactored Solution
Online Aspect
Personal Anecdote
Chapter 6 Unfruitful Democracy
Context
General Context
Antipattern Solution
Consequences
Symptoms
Refactored Solution
Online Aspect
Personal Anecdote
Chapter 7 Nothing to Talk About
Context
General Context
Antipattern Solution
Consequences
Symptoms
Refactored Solution
Online Aspect
Personal Anecdote
Chapter 8 Political Vote
Context
General Context
Antipattern Solution
Consequences
Symptoms
Refactored Solution
Online Aspect
Personal Anecdote
Part II: Planning Antipatterns
Chapter 9 Team, Really?
Context
General Context
Antipattern Solution
Consequences
Symptoms
Refactored Solution
Online Aspect
Personal Anecdote
Chapter 10 Do It Yourself
Context
General Context
Antipattern Solution
Consequences
Symptoms
Refactored Solution
Online Aspect
Personal Anecdote
Chapter 11 Death by Postponement
Context
General Context
Antipattern Solution
Consequences
Symptoms
Refactored Solution
Online Aspect
Personal Anecdote
Chapter 12 Get It Over With
Context
General Context
Antipattern Solution
Consequences
Symptoms
Refactored Solution
Online Aspect
Personal Anecdote
Chapter 13 Disregard for Preparation
Context
General Context
Antipattern Solution
Consequences
Symptoms
Refactored Solution
Online Aspect
Personal Anecdote
Chapter 14 Suffocating
Context
General Context
Antipattern Solution
Consequences
Symptoms
Refactored Solution
Online Aspect
Personal Anecdote
Chapter 15 Curious Manager
Context
General Context
Antipattern Solution
Consequences
Symptoms
Refactored Solution
Online Aspect
Personal Anecdote
Chapter 16 Peek-A-Boo
Context
General Context
Antipattern Solution
Consequences
Symptoms
Refactored Solution
Online Aspect
Personal Anecdote
Part III: People Antipatterns
Chapter 17 Disillusioned Facilitator
Context
General Context
Antipattern Solution
Consequences
Symptoms
Refactored Solution
Online Aspect
Personal Anecdote
Chapter 18 Loudmouth
Context
General Context
Antipattern Solution
Consequences
Symptoms
Refactored Solution
Online Aspect
Personal Anecdote
Chapter 19 Silent One
Context
General Context
Antipattern Solution
Consequences
Symptoms
Refactored Solution
Online Aspect
Personal Anecdote
Chapter 20 Negative One
Context
General Context
Antipattern Solution
Consequences
Symptoms
Refactored Solution
Online Aspect
Personal Anecdote
Chapter 21 Negative Team
Context
General Context
Antipattern Solution
Consequences
Symptoms
Refactored Solution
Online Aspect
Personal Anecdote
Chapter 22 Lack of Trust
Context
General Context
Antipattern Solution
Consequences
Symptoms
Refactored Solution
Online Aspect
Personal Anecdote
Chapter 23 Different Cultures
Context
General Context
Antipattern Solution
Consequences
Symptoms
Refactored Solution
Online Aspect
Personal Anecdote
Chapter 24 Dead Silence
Context
General Context
Antipattern Solution
Consequences
Symptoms
Refactored Solution
Online Aspect
Personal Anecdote
Conclusion
References
Index
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✦ Subjects

Agile; Lean; DevOps