Manage Activities

Every retrospective design includes activities that help teams collaborate on problems or issues. Activities may include any process or exercise that moves the team through to the end. In Part 2, Selecting Activities, we describe a variety of activities for each phase of a retrospective. In Chapter 10, Retrospectives for Common Scenarios, we offer retrospective designs in response to common scenarios that teams tend to face.

As the facilitator, you’ll need to introduce each activity, monitor progress, and encourage the team to capture learnings or conclusions. Then you move on to the next activity and so on through the end of the retrospective.

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