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It seems to be a common understanding that retrospectives are the major practice that enable agility. However, conducting virtual retrospectives is often not straight forward. One possibility is to conduct a retrospective at each site and then to swap the different findings afterwards. Another one is to facilitate a joint virtual retrospective using different virtual communication channels. In this workshop we will explore practices and facilitation techniques that have helped in different global projects. Moreover we’ll indicate supporting tools and how to prepare such a workshop.

__Software teams confront what works and what doesn’t throughout every project. Where does their hard-earned experience go?

THE LEARNING CIRCLE: Action, Reflection, Learning, Planning in light of guidance. An approach to learning for individuals and groups using Agile.

The Learning Circle is an approach to learning for individuals and groups, and is a generalized agile framework that you can use outside of software development. By using the Learning Circle, you follow a cycle of activities that flows through the steps of Action, Reflection, Learning, and Planning, all in the light of guidance.

Great software comes from getting the best ideas into the product. Jim McCarthy, who led the legendary turnaround of the Visual C++ group at Microsoft, left Microsoft in 1996 to create a team dynamics laboratory to figure out how to always create a create a high performace team. His lab has focused on this challenge, and has produced 11 protocols for making unanimous decisions, supporting quality thinking, strengthening design iterations, and incorporating feedback, emotions, nobility, and passion into products. Learn about an entirely new class of tools.