Retro email format

“My team hates having retrospectives. They’re time consuming and it’s really frustrating when nothing changes as a result.” -- literally every manager ever. Not to mention, they are the most time consuming, frustrating, and expensive part of agile development. Yet, the process to execute them completely broken. You've got things to build, but you also want to make sure your team is engaged and getting better: - What is slowing you and your team down? - Is your team engaged and excited about their work? - Are your current projects giving a good ROI? - How can you catch small issues early, so that they don't turn into BIG problems? To answer these questions, you should be having retrospectives regularly. But, your team hates retros. You’re probably getting a lot of surface-level issues that aren’t addressing the real problems facing your team. This leads to bad information and decision making, a not-so-engaged team that ignores small issues that could blow up in your face and cost a lot more down the road. How much easier would your job be if retrospectives were fast, easy, almost fun, and your team actually looked forward to them? Imagine: - Your retrospectives were focused and productive. - You walked away with actionable insights. - You'd have real data on how your team was improving. - You'd make the right decisions as a team and catch those little issues before they turned into fires. - Your team would be happy, engaged, and ship better products -- which adds value (and probably money) to your business. What if you could instantly see the pulse of your team; happiness, roadblocks, current questions? If you're not walking away from every meeting with valuable action items, you should check out Retro. We've been agile for years, and recently gone remote. We hate the tools we've tried for online retrospectives. That's why we're building Retro to help you and your team have retrospectives that are focused, fun, and productive.