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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">AgilePDX Downtown Pub Lunch: Keeping it Fresh: New Ideas for Agile Retrospectives</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2014-02-14T12:00:00" datetime="2014-02-14T12:00:00">Friday, February 14, 2014 from noon</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2014-02-14T13:00:00" datetime="2014-02-14T13:00:00">1pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202390475'><span class='fn org p-name'>McMenamins Ringlers Pub</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">1332 W Burnside St.</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">Oregon</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97209</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1332%20W%20Burnside%20St.,%20Portland%20Oregon%2097209%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>In February, due to popular demand, we are revisiting retrospectives with our local (and noted international) authority on the topic, Diana Larsen.</p> <p>Retrospectives improve any project or process--building on a team’s immediate past experience of success and failure. Smart teams and organizations hold Retrospectives iteratively, throughout the work cycle and at important milestones. In Retrospectives, teams systematically evaluate their own performance, explore their lessons learned, expand their capacity and capability, and forge ways to continuously improve their work and deliverables. Teams can’t truly call themselves Agile if they don’t include Retrospectives among their regular work practices.</p> <p>However, over time as Retrospectives become routine, they can also become stale and boring, delivering less value to the team. Or teams may hold pro forma Retrospectives that don't result in real improvements. How can you prevent this? Keep your Retrospective practice fresh through a renewed emphasis on team learning, collective analysis, and collaborative decision making. Bring new activities and group processes to the meeting that will stimulate better thinking and improvements. In this session, Diana Larsen will introduce the Flexible Framework for Retrospectives and how to incorporate the Five Rules for Team Learning in your Retrospective designs. She'll lead a discussion of new team activities to enlarge your repertoire, so bring your favorites to share.</p> <p>Bio: Diana Larsen, founding partner of FutureWorks Consulting, is considered an international authority in the areas of Agile software development, team leadership, and Agile transitions. Diana works with organizations around the world to design work systems, improve project performance, and support Agile leaders and enterprises. Deeply in tune with how work teams grow, adapt, and develop, she co-authored Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great, Liftoff: Launching Agile Teams and Projects, Quickstart Guide to Five Rules for Accelerated Learning, and articles about the Agile Fluency model at <a href="http://www.agilefluency.com">www.agilefluency.com</a> and <a href="http://www.infoq.com/articles/agile-fluency-fit-purpose">http://www.infoq.com/articles/agile-fluency-fit-purpose</a> Follow Diana on Twitter (@DianaOfPortland).</p> <p>We’ll be waiting for you at Ringler’s under the Crystal Ballroom on Burnside but will start on time at 12p and end on time at 1p. We’re in the back room. If you miss this opportunity, you miss an opportunity to learn, network, and drink McMenamin’s beer in the middle of day with new friends.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://www.agilepdx.org">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>