Agile Adria is the biggest agile/lean conference in southeastern Europe. It is organized by Agile Croatia, one of the most active agile communities in Europe.

At the Agile Adria 2015 conference I will facilitate the workshop Make your Agile Retrospectives more Valuable:

The agile manifesto proposes that a “team reflects on how to become more effective”. Agile retrospectives can be used to inspect and adapt the way of working. But sometimes teams struggle to figure out what an agile retrospective is? And they wonder how they should do them?

Retrospectives help teams to deploy agile practices in an effective way and to continuously learn and improve themselves.

The retrospective facilitator (often the scrum master) should have a toolbox of retrospective exercises, and be able to pick the most effective one.

This workshop will show the “what” and “why” of retrospectives and the business value and benefits that they can bring. You will experience exercises that you can use to facilitate retrospectives, supported with advice for introducing and improving retrospectives. It is based on the successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives.

Retrospectives are a great way for teams to improve their way of working, to become more agile and lean. Getting actions out of a retrospective that are doable, and getting them done helps teams to learn and improve continuously.