Never Skip Retros - Tim Casasola, The Overlap

This resource first appeared in issue #41 on 11 Sep 2020 and has tags Technical Leadership: Other

In his new newsletter, Casasola argues that one of the most fundamental team meetings you can have are regular restrospectives, because:

They disrupt the habit of anticipating the future,
They are low hanging fruit, and
They put teams on the path to continuously improve.

He goes on to suggest tools like Parabol and Fun Retrospetives as tools to help with the retrospective process.

This isn’t exclusively a software development (or even computing) practice; it’s widespread in project management generally, and I think any time there’s a natural place to take stock and look back, doing some kind of a “what went well, what should we take a look at for next time” meeting is well worth the time for the potential improvements.