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Keeping Retrospectives Fresh

Shahzad Zafar |  61m 54s

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Retrospectives are great . . . except when they're not. Without care and attention, retrospectives become stale, boring, and ineffective. And this is especially likely with distributed teams, where it is easy to put yourself on mute and start answering email instead of focusing on your team. In this Collaboration at Scale webinar, we explored how you can keep retrospectives fresh, engaging, and impactful. We'll focus especially on helping distributed teams identify the frameworks that allow them to explore different ways they can improve performance.

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About the author

Shahzad Zafar
Shahzad Zafar is an Engineering Manager at Cerner Corporation. He is also an Agile Coach, facilitates several Agile trainings and has been leading Agile development teams since 2009 at Cerner. Shahzad has a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2005 and also received his Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Kansas in 2009. He joined Cerner in 2005 as a software developer, working on C++ and Java. He got the benefit of seeing projects being run in a waterfall methodology before transitioning to Agile development. As an Agile champion and coach, Shahzad gets the opportunity to work with other teams to offer support and guidance to setup productive and successful teams by leveraging Lean/Agile methodologies. Currently, Shahzad is leading a cloud services development business unit and the Agile Center of Excellence at Cerner.