How Having Bad Agile Retrospective Meetings Can Sink a Team
Originally published on www.RetroRabbit.io
Retrospectives are easy to overlook as sources for team optimization and improvement. A lot of people talk about the downsides of not having retrospectives at all, but there are definitely problems that can come up if your retrospective meetings are run in the wrong way.
Here are three things that teams currently running retrospectives can be challenged with. If you think your team might be running into any of these problems; it is time to stop, think, and target areas for improvement.
1. The team can’t celebrate wins
A common problem with feedback across the board, including 1:1 scenarios as well as team retrospectives is a focus on constructive feedback to facilitate growth. Yes, it is easy to always ask for constructive feedback and focus on what needs to be fixed. This focus drives clarity around what needs improving versus what is going well, and feels the most productive. But only considering areas of potential improvement during your retrospectives can lead you and your team down a terrible path towards no-morale city. Population; teams that have absolutely no fun at work and hate their lives.
One of the most common retro formats, “What went well, what didn’t go well…
