Services: Project Retrospectives

Retrospectives enable teams to improve performance, reduce risk and deliver increasing levels of value while projects, programs and strategies are in-flight. Retrospectives result in concrete action items that focus on on reducing cycle time, increasing client satisfaction, and improving teamwork. Doing retrospectives that really make a difference, however, sometimes requires a bit of outside help.

Objective, neutral facilitation by a third party coach is often the only way to unleash breakthrough results. There are two reasons for this:

• Many teams don't yet have the capability to objectively solve problems on their own and address tough issues in ways that lead to meaningful improvements
• Teams may go through the motions and leave root causes unaddressed because of of fear, blame, defensiveness, or avoidance patterns

A skilled retrospective leader from outside the project team is in a much better position to be able to:

• Create an environment of safety
• Bring new energy and focus
• Level the playing field
• Ask the tough questions that really make a difference

Our coaches serve in a substantively neutral role, enabling teams and managers to address processes, practices and systems objectively in an environment that’s focused on learning and performance improvement rather than blame, scapegoating or political bias. They provide teams at the project, program and portfolio levels with a neutral, objective means to systematically remove barriers and generate actionable improvements that:

• Reduce cycle time
• Increase velocity
• Improve client satisfaction
• Lift team morale to peak levels

Transfer Improvements Across Projects

Innovations from mid-project retrospectives can be shared and implemented across the project portfolio, creating a “multiplier effect” that enables the organization as a whole to continuously improve, reduce waste, and deliver faster across many projects at the same time.

We Help You Develop Your Own Retrospective Leadership Skills

We lead retrospectives for some of the best project organizations in the world. And we help you develop your own retrospective leaders who can continue to work with teams long after we're gone.

Contact us for a free half-hour consultation on how you can make project retrospectives work for you, your team and your organization.

Learn more about what it takes to facilitate truly outstanding project retrospectives.