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Background Illustrations to Make your Retros Fun as Well as Easy
You can now add a background image or illustration to your retrospective! That’s right, with the saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” as our inspiration, this new feature helps you set the mood, create a little fun [...]
Create Social Contracts with Team Agreements that Improve Culture
Often used by agile teams, a social contract paves the way for everyone in the team to work together better. They list the agreed ways a team will behave with each other. Typically, without a clear agreement, there’s often a [...]
How to run great retrospectives online with remote and distributed teams
As predicted some time ago and recently catalysed, the popularity of remote working continues apace. Whether partially or fully remote, the benefits of such a workforce are hard to ignore - increased productivity and reach decreased costs access to [...]
What is a Scrum Master and why is their role so important in a retrospective?
Retrospectives play a vital part in Agile; the opportunity they provide for a team to adapt and improve is core to the delivery of value through continuous improvement. The Scrum Guide states that the purpose of the Sprint Retrospective [...]
End of Year Retrospective: An Exercise in Gratitude
There’s a lot to be said for showing gratitude in the workplace; and with the end of 2021 insight, it struck us as the perfect opportunity to reflect upon that for which we are grateful at TeamRetro. Of course, [...]
Creating Positive Working Relationships Between the Product Owner and Agile Retrospective Team
The relationship between the Product Owner, Scrum Masters and Developers is critical to an Agile Team’s success. It’s a symbiotic relationship that relies on clear communication, aligned goals, transparency, and is founded on trust. Building a product that is [...]