1Retrospectives 101
The primary purpose of this first chapter is to introduce you to retrospectives. I’ll tell you how to use retrospectives in a family context, introduce you to the phase model, and give you some hints for how to fill these phases with life. After this chapter, you will have all the basics to start with your first retrospective, so let’s get started.
1.1 What Is a Retrospective?
Generally speaking, a retrospective (lat. retrospectare, “look back”) is a review, a look backward. When you lie in bed at night and let the events of the day cross your mind, that is a retrospective. When a family sits down to dinner and talks about the day—the children talking about school and the parents talking about their experiences—that is ...
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