Hot Air Balloon Retrospective

A new way of engaging team to the retrospectives and putting them on a single platform to speak up…

Jay Hyett

I attended the LAST conference in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago and got to listen to some amazing people talk about Lean, Agile and Systems Thinking.

One of the talks I went to (by Ryan McKergow) was on breaking the mould of the traditional Agile retrospective – discussing what went well?, what didn’t go so well? and what puzzles us? and trying new formats to achieve different results.

My team and I have been running the same old retro for the past 13 Iterations (or since the team adopted an Agile way of working late last year) and I’ll be the first to admit that running the same format has pretty much given us the same outcome each time…. and has become boring for all involved. 

So coming back from LAST I decided to mix things up and try one of the new formats that Ryan shared with…

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