Zorro Circles: Retrospectives for Excellence

Have you wondered how to progressively harness your agile team’s energy, focus on important goals, and improve outcomes? Woody Zuill said, “If you could adopt only one agile practice, then let it be retrospectives. Everything else will follow.” Retrospectives help individuals and teams adjust to today’s constant change and establish a sustainable pace to deliver complex products. Zorro Circles is a framework for designing retrospectives that employs proven techniques to gather and analyze information required to collectively solve problems. Aakash Srinivasan and Vivek Angiras introduce the four key steps—Pave the Way, Develop a Shared Understanding, Know What to Accomplish, and Executable Actions—to using Zorro Circles to create powerful retrospectives. Discover the essentials of designing retrospectives by understanding the multilayered circles of projects’ and people’s characteristics. Take away new techniques to design moments of inspection and adaptation in your organization’s ecosystem and enable excellence in execution, behaviors, and tactics.