Jessica Barnett is a Product Manager at a startup called Medivo. At Medivo, they’ve adopted Trello to organize just about everything, including their retrospectives. After seeing the positive impact of retros, there was company-wide adoption, starting with the c-suite. Not only has the company embraced some agile practices, the team has been able to influence business to reduce overwhelm, staying aligned with their top priorities.
Trello Retrospectives
See Jess’ post detailing their process
Its the one time the whole team is focused on improving our lives
Influencing Business
Retros pulled across company, starting with c-suite
Creating visibility on overwhelm
Many different ways to tell the same story
How can we ensure if this is the most important thing it is what we are focused on?
What worked
Demonstrated velocity improvements with focused efforts
Pushed back on requests
Gained clarity on top priorities
If you want us to do great work, this is the way we’re going to do it
Needed support to say “no”
VP of Technology saying “you present the facts, you drive home principles and I’ll make sure it goes okay” (and following through by defending the team)
Contract between business and technology agreeing to use Agile to manage development
Performance connected to celebration and investment in your people
If you believe in your principles, find ways, experiment with ways that you can communicate those principles and make it happen.
