Better Retrospectives
Build a team that gets better with every sprint
Better Retrospectives gives you a simple, flexible structure for leading retros that spark real improvement and ignite engagement. Whether you're a Scrum Master, coach, or team member, this course will help you transform your retrospectives into the most valuable meeting of your sprint.
What You Get
Lifetime, instant access to over 3 hours of content
6 video tackling common issues, delivered by Brian Milner
Quizzes to test your knowledge
Why Take Better Retrospectives
Retrospectives are meant to fuel continuous improvement. But too often, they feel like a chore—same questions, same voices, same inaction.
This course helps you break that cycle.
In this 50 minute course, you’ll learn how to facilitate retrospectives that your team wants to attend—sessions that are engaging, insightful, and lead to change. You’ll see how to vary your approach, navigate different personalities, and tailor each retro to your team’s needs, so you can turn “just another meeting” into a powerful engine for growth.
Better Retrospectives is packed with ideas you can use immediately—even if your team is quiet, skeptical, or burned out.
Understanding Retrospectives
Facilitation Techniques That Work
The Retrospective Menu
Creating Engaging Retrospectives
Tailoring Retrospectives to Team Dynamics
Enhancing and Building Trust
Everything You Need to Stop Getting Stuck - Including the AI Toolkit
Your training includes expanded access to MGS Essentials, an always-on workspace when you need help fast.
Use the AI Toolkit, trained on Mike Cohn’s teachings, to get moving when you're stuck. Answer complex questions, see how Mike would solve your problems, split features into sprint-ready stories and create actionable backlog items your team can deliver.
Use Planning Poker® to run better estimation sessions, test whether plans are realistic with the Plan Visualizer, and align stakeholders using Project Success Sliders. Prioritize the highest-value work with Theme Scoring tools and assess your team’s progress with the Elements of Agile Assessment.
Upcoming Public Training
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Your Mountain Goat Instructors
Mountain Goat has handpicked instructors that share our training values. These are people with deep experience, who are leading teams with agile today and can give you real-world answers about what does and doesn’t work.
Brian Milner
Starting out as a developer, Brian worked up through management layers, then transitioned to Scrum Master, then Coach and now Certified Scrum Trainer. His practical experience in both waterfall and agile organizations helps him clarify what works and what doesn’t, plus he has many years’ experience helping teams transition to agile.
Read more...Brian also brings more than 20 years of software development experience to his classes. People remark on his ability to answer even tough questions with ease, enthusiasm, and insight.
Scrum Certifications include: CSM, CST, CSPO, CAL-Educator, CAL-1, A-CSM, A-CSPO, CSP-CM, CSP-PO, Path to CSP Educator, Scrum Foundations Educator.
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