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MFN: A Community
of Practice Making Meetings Easier and More
Effective
IAF Theme for 2010:
Collaboration in Action
Half-Year MFN
Memberships Now Go to: MFN Memberships ********************************************* Regular Meeting -- Open Event Thursday, September 9, 2010 AGILE
RETROSPECTIVES: More organizations are realizing that teams need to step back and reflect in order to improve. Retrospectives provide a frame to help teams inspect, reflect, and adapt their methods, teamwork, and organizational relationships and continually improve. Project retrospectives help teams examine what went right and what went wrong on a project. But traditionally retrospectives (also known as “post-mortems”) are only held at the end of the project – too late to help. You need agile retrospectives that are iterative and incremental. You need to find and fix problems accurately to help the team today. Esther Derby, presenter Esther works with individuals, teams, and managers to improve their ability to deliver valuable software. Esther is recognized as a leader in the human-side of software development, including management, systems-thinking, organizational change, collaboration, team building, facilitation and retrospectives. She has been a programmer, system manager, manager and internal consultant. Since 1997, she has run her own consulting firm, esther derby associates, inc., in Minneapolis, MN. For more information, go to: MFN September Meeting To renew your MFN membership or register as a new member go to: New or Renew 2010 MFN Membership Learning Opportunities MN-ToP and MN Council for Quality are offering opportunities for learning. Check them out. Click on Other Events. Learning opportunities offered by partner organizations are described under Other Events. These specific workshops can help supplement the knowledge and skills of facilitators. Article of Interest PMI, Project Management Institute, has permitted MFN to offer an article, The Project Meeting Facilitator, which offers helpful advice and insight on how to facilitate a project meeting. The article is in PDF format, so you will need a PDF reader to view it. You may download a free version of Acrobat Reader at www.adobe.com |