Sympower es una empresa transformadora que capacita a los usuarios de energía comerciales e industriales para construir sistemas energéticos sostenibles. As a B-certified company, its goal is to increase sustainability, cost reduction, and grid stability around the world.
Sympower is a company defined by its people and culture, with a shared vision of a truly sustainable world.
Specializing in demand response and energy flexibility solutions, Sympower helps balance the grid and integrates renewable energy sources. Como parte de su compromiso con la mejora continua, Sympower ha adoptado TeamRetro para agilizar los procesos y fomentar una cultura de colaboración y crecimiento.
Fred Puistaja es un destacado Engineering Manager en Sympower, donde ha demostrado su experiencia y liderazgo durante más de 6 años, ascendiendo a través de puestos clave.
His previous manager and teammate described him as having a keen eye for data quality, with continuous improvement embedded in his heart and brain, and as a cool life hacker!
Fred comparte por qué TeamRetro es la herramienta de Retrospectiva preferida.
“We are a software team and company. We were looking for tools to help us better run our retrospectives and needed features that would help improve the way our meetings were run.”
For us, this meant things like:
- You didn’t need to mess with stickies
- You could write down action items and track them
- You could hide all ideas before discussing
- You could color ideas by the author
- You could generate a summary of the retro
Descubrimos que TeamRetro tenía estas funciones y también una forma bien estructurada de hacer retros. The other tools didn’t have all of these features in one. Realizamos nuestras retrospectivas quincenales en nuestros equipos de Scrum, por lo que es importante contar con la herramienta adecuada para reuniones de Retrospectiva ágil. Algunos de nuestros equipos no técnicos también utilizan TeamRetro en ocasiones.
Having good retrospectives means we can get fast feedback from our sprints. Small improvements each time help us fine-tune our processes. One of the aspects that we really enjoy is that it also allows us to have retrospectives with minimal effort from the facilitator. It allows the team to focus on the task at hand because it is just easier.
It’s great that it also allows us to share the summary easily with other teams and team members. It reduces the facilitator’s workload, which means they can be more effective and helpful for the team.
Team members could also fill in their ideas beforehand, and privately – without showing them to everyone else already. This means the input is unbiased and can be in their own time. You can also schedule recurring retros.
One of the benefits of using Teamretro is that it allows you to create and track actions right next to the retro (and idea) itself, so you can see where the reason for the action came from.
One of the cons or areas for improvement would be that during the presentation stage, when we are going through ideas, those ideas can be sorted by topic, and by person. This would allow us to go through topic areas first, rather than by most voted which is the default.
[Actualización de funciones de TeamRetro: Excelente comentario, Fred. ¡Y buenas noticias! Esta función ya está disponible, así que puede ordenar por tema y por persona en la fase de presentación.]
En general, nuestro equipo dice que nuestras retros ahora están más organizadas, lo que nos permite tener ciclos de feedback rápidos sobre cómo estamos trabajando.
Como consejo para los equipos, es importante procurar siempre crear un entorno seguro para compartir feedback, a fin de sacar el máximo partido a sus retrospectivas.
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Gracias por su feedback, Fred. ¡Esperamos ayudarle a usted y a sus equipos a seguir realizando retrospectivas increíbles y que merezcan la pena!