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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