Retrospective Magic: Tips from neuroscience and psychology to improve your retro

Retrospective Magic: Tips from neuroscience and psychology to improve your retros

Are your retros running a bit flat? Need something to spice them up and make them more effective and also more interesting for your team? Join us as we walk through a collection of techniques from psychology and applied neuroscience to give your retros that edge you need.
You’ll walk away from this session with immediately applicable techniques that you can use right away.

About the speaker:

Mike Bowler is an experienced coach and trainer who helps teams, and their management, improve the way they deliver value. What makes Mike’s approach different is in the range of skills that he brings to your organization:⮕ Human behavior, psychology, and applied neuroscience, to improve how people work, both individually and in groups. This includes a focus on growing psychological safety.

⮕ Workflow design and implementation, to improve how the work flows through the system and how value is created. A focus on metrics, more data-informed decision making, and probabilistic forecasting to more accurately answer the question “when will we be done?”
⮕ Technical skills to improve how the value is actually implemented and maintained. Development, architecture, DevOps.
⮕ 25 years of experience with Agile methods to put it all together. Kanban, Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP)