Retro Action - How to Master Impactful Agile Retrospectives with Easy Agile & Adaptavist
Transform Your Retrospectives Into Meaningful Change
Retrospectives shouldn’t just be another agile ceremony - they should be your team’s most powerful tool for continuous improvement.
In this webinar, Easy Agile’s Jaclyn Smith and Adaptavist’s Shane Raubenheimer show you how to go beyond reflection and start making real progress. This session offers universal, practical strategies to enhance agile delivery across time zones, tools, and team cultures.
Key Takeaways from the Webinar
This practical session dives deep into how to run agile retrospectives that actually lead to change. With real-world examples, expert insights, and tool demos, you'll gain the skills to transform your retros into a consistent engine for improvement.
You’ll walk away with:
- A clear understanding of common agile anti-patterns that affect teams across regions and industries
- A simple, repeatable method—the 5 Whys technique—to diagnose root causes of recurring team challenges
- Strategies to reduce meeting fatigue and run more engaging, focused retrospectives with distributed or co-located teams
- Tips for turning reflection into measurable, trackable actions using your existing Jira workflow
- Advice on avoiding action overload and prioritizing change initiatives in fast-moving delivery environments
- A preview of how Easy Agile TeamRhythm enables remote and hybrid teams to run retros seamlessly, integrated with real work data
This webinar equips you with globally relevant practices to make retrospectives more impactful, and less performative.
Further Reading and Resources
Want to go deeper into the ideas shared in this session? These practical resources are a great way to keep building your confidence and capability when it comes to facilitating meaningful retrospectives - whether you're just getting started or looking to level up.
📝 Free Action-Driven Retrospective Template
Skip the blank board and get straight to impact. This free, ready-to-use template helps teams focus on meaningful reflection and achievable actions, so you can start improving right away.
📚 More Resources on Running Better Retrospectives
Explore a curated collection of articles, templates, and guides covering everything from facilitation techniques to psychological safety. Written for agile teams around the world, these resources are grounded in real-world practice, not theory.
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Are you struggling with bottlenecks and delays? Do dependencies across teams and projects create chaos and confusion?In this webinar, Product Leader and Agile Coach Jaclyn Smith shares practical strategies for identifying and mastering dependencies.
You will learn how to enhance communication, visualization, and ownership of dependencies to boost the collaboration and productivity of your teams.
Agenda:
- Why it is essential to manage dependencies well
- Practical tips to get started; actionable advice for effective dependency management within your teams
- Managing dependencies across planning levels; from big room planning all the way to team sprints
- Real-life examples and lessons learned; gain insights from complex project environments
Set aside half an hour for valuable insights and practical techniques that help you manage dependencies and use them to your advantage.
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Master Customer-Centric Product Development in Jira
Is your agile team struggling to align development with customer needs? Want to build features your customers actually use and value?
Join Teagan Harbridge, Customer Experience Manager at Easy Agile, for a practical guide to embedding customer-centric practices in your Jira workflow. Discover how leading teams use customer insights to drive agile product decisions that deliver measurable value.
In this webinar, you'll learn:
- How to conduct effective agile customer interviews that reveal genuine insights
- Techniques for creating and managing personas directly in Jira
- A practical framework for user story mapping in Jira that aligns with customer journeys
- Methods to transform your backlog into a customer-centric roadmap
Who should watch:
- Product Managers and Product Owners focused on customer-centric development
- Scrum Masters looking to improve team alignment with customer needs
- Development Team Leads wanting to enhance their Jira workflow
- Agile Coaches implementing customer-focused practices
See real examples of customer-centric agile in action. Learn practical techniques you can implement immediately using Jira. Walk away with templates and frameworks for persona creation and journey mapping that work with your existing tools and processes.
The webinar also includes a live Q&A session where we address real challenges teams face in implementing customer-centric practices.
Set aside 45 minutes to transform how you approach product development. Learn practical techniques for understanding your customers, making data-driven decisions, and delivering features that truly matter to your users.
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