Colleen Johnson

Colleen is a Kanban coach & trainer for Team, Portfolio and Enterprise Kanban Systems. Executive coaching for alignment of Lean & Agile practices to strategic goals & OKRs. Development of end-to-end Kanban Systems that marry Lean Product Discovery and Lean Product Delivery to bring visibility, flexibility and predictability. Application of a systems thinking approach to organizational process improvements with a focus on customer-first principles & actionable metrics.

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How to Run a Retrospective Your Team Can Get Excited About

In order to keep your team retrospectives productive in the long-term, there are a couple of proven tactics you can use as a facilitator (but also as a team member). To make sure your team is excited for this meeting and you’re leading the team down the path of actionable takeaways, keep these following best practices at bay when you are planning or hosting your upcoming retrospectives. 

Colleen Johnson

October 7, 2021
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4 mins
Data

Team Pulse: The Ultimate Analytics Dashboard for Your Team Retrospective Data

Team Pulse is an analytics dashboard inside ScatterSpoke that does the heavy lifting so you can make data-driven decisions about your team process improvement and see patterns & trends develop over time.

Colleen Johnson

September 16, 2021
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7 mins
Retro Format

7 Online Retro Board Templates for Remote Teams

The retro board we apply plays a fundamental part in facilitating different types of conversations and instigating a variety of ideas from within the team. Choose the right one for your distributed team.

Colleen Johnson

September 20, 2021
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3 mins
Data

Visualize Your Team Data from Miro in an Analytics Dashboard. See Trends and Patterns Across Retrospectives.

The ScatterSpoke + Miro integration shows the contents of any Miro retrospective template inside ScatterSpoke. ‍Now, you can gain real insights from past retros, hosted inside Miro, by tracking trends & patterns that will help you make better decisions.

Colleen Johnson

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5 MIN READ
Data

3 Metrics You Should Review at Every Retrospective

Three critical data points to review during every retrospective will anchor your decisions to change the system in stats, not opinion. Transforming your subjective retro into an efficient, smart meeting based on facts, figures, and quantifiable improvements.

Colleen Johnson

April 21, 2021
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6 MIN READ
Scaled

Why Scaling Retros Is the Next Step in Your Agile Transformation

Organizational level retros facilitate collective ownership of the company’s performance. They allow people from all levels of the organization to understand their impact on the system and identify ways for improving them.

Colleen Johnson

January 13, 2021
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9 MIN READ
Scaled

Running Scaled Retrospectives

A scaled retrospective provides the chance to expand scope of improvements beyond the individual team.

Colleen Johnson

August 9, 2019
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5 MIN READ
Antipatterns

Stop Wasting Time in Retrospectives

We need to talk about what to change to fix the big problems. These are not short conversations. This should be the priority of our time together as a team.

Colleen Johnson

September 22, 2018
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2 MIN READ
Participation

5 Tools to Boost your Participation Rate

One of the challenges we face as facilitiators is keeping everyone engaged in the conversation. This is true of sprint planning, story pointing and of course in retrospectives. There can be a lot of underlying reasons that a team stays quiet- here's our top five ways to get them talking again.

Colleen Johnson

March 7, 2018
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2 MIN READ
Retro Format

Your Retrospective Format Doesn't Matter

Retrospectives are an incredible opportunity for our teams to learn, connect and grow. They don’t stop being productive because they get boring, they stop being productive because they lack actionable data.

Colleen Johnson

January 13, 2018
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4 MIN READ

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