Session 17: Where Do We Go From Here?
Don Gray
Efficiency means doing things right. Effectiveness involves doing the right things. Becoming more productive requires being both effecient and effective. But how do we do that? Employing the Agile Principle of “the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly” the team can do both. In short, the team conducts a retrospective.
Retrospectives form the basis for continuous improvement. The continuous cycle of inspect and adapt allows the team to experiment with changes. Some changes may focus on efficieny while other changes look to effectiveness. The iterative, incremental changes allow the team to check the results and decide if they want integrate the change into their process or try something else.
In this session we’ll do a project, and participants will experience a process for creating:
- a common understanding built on each member’s experience
- shared insights gleaned from the common understanding
- an agreement on what to do next
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