Running Effective Scrum Meetings

Boost Team Productivity With Agile Retrospectives

De: Martin Wickman

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

This is how you should run your agile retrospective meetings!

"Excellent! Gives deep insight into how an effective culture can be created and processed. Thumbs up for all practical tips, they will become very useful in my future projects." "A Collaboration Kickstarter! Martin is delivering a nice set of tools for anyone in need of collaboration improvements. This will definitely boost my upcoming meetings!" "Great about fixing teams! I'm impressed with all the details about running meetings. I also liked the step by step section where the author talks about how to create the meetings, it's clear he knows his stuff. I'm a Scrummaster and yes this is really useful. Highly recommended!" Imagine a meeting where everyone is focused, every voice is heard, where the group uncovers new bold ideas and decisions are reached effectively. And when it’s over, everyone leaves with a feeling of accomplishment and a crystal-clear goal of what to do next. This book shows you how! You'll learn how to run retrospective meetings to transform groups of people into highly productive teams. Not only is it extremely fun to be part of a great team, but higher productivity is also a dream come true for any organization. It makes your customers happy and (if you’re lucky) keeps your boss away.

It’s also about boosting your team’s productivity

Now imagine being able to deliver new quality products or services your customer loves... week after week. No matter if you’re just starting out with a new team or you’re part of a team of dedicated agile developers, this book shows you how to use meetings to transform your group into a highly performing team that runs circles around the competition.

• Fix your team: Run retrospective meetings the way they were meant
• Run appreciated meetings that give results without wasting time
• Deal with troublemakers and handle yourself when things heat up
• Learn practical skills and tools to manage your group
• Create razor sharp agendas with focus and purpose
• Boost your career with smart facilitation skills

We'll use a five-step method to create meetings that make your team more productive. It's a simple and easy-to-follow process any person can learn. Instructions how to kick off the meeting all the way to wrapping it up. You'll learn the secrets how how to run effective meetings. With lots and lots of practical tips to manage the group, make team decisions and use professional facilitation tools. Deal with people who dominate and how to get others to speak up. And, of course, how to keep yourself calm and focused during the meeting. Bonus: Included in the book are many handpicked meeting activities you can choose from, based on what you want to achieve. Use these activities to get input from everyone and discover what the group really wants. Learn the secrets used by expert facilitators around the world to make sure meetings stays productive and on track. This book is jammed with insights and tips. Everything in here is tried and tested, proven by professional facilitators throughout the world. Not many people know about these things, so this is a chance to learn what most people don’t have a clue about! I have yet to meet a team leader, team member or project manager who uses anything you're about to learn here. At the end of it, you’ll have the skills to create your own awesome meetings that will help you and your team to more productivity and get you started on your journey to becoming an even better meeting facilitator.