Retrospectives Repair Guide
Fix the retrospectives your team dreads
Retrospectives Repair Guide gives you a focused, practical approach to solving the most common problems with retrospectives. If your team is disengaged, stuck, or skeptical, this course will help you troubleshoot what’s wrong—and fix it fast.
What You Get
Lifetime, instant access to over 3 hours of content
10 video tackling common issues, delivered by Brian Milner
Quizzes to test your knowledge
Why Take Retrospectives Repair Guide
Retrospectives matter. But when the same problems keep coming up—or worse, your team rolls their eyes when it’s retro time—it’s easy to lose faith in the process.
This course helps you repair what’s broken.
In this 1 hour and 20 minute course, you’ll walk through 10 of the most common retrospective challenges: quiet teams, surface-level conversations, low follow-through, remote disengagement, and more. You’ll learn how to spot the real issues behind the symptoms and apply techniques that restore engagement, safety, and value to every session.
Retrospectives Repair Guide is a field-tested troubleshooting kit—designed to help you fix your retros and get your team back on track.
How to Handle Retrospectives with Quiet Teams
How to Get Your Team to Go Deeper
How to Handle Retrospectives with a Remote Team
How to Start Making Real Progress
How to Handle Teams That Hate Retrospectives
How to Handle Outsiders Who Want to Observe
How to Handle Teams Who Think There’s Nothing Left to Improve
How to Handle Issues Out of Your Control
How to Handle Retrospectives When the Sprint Goes Really Well
How to Use Retrospectives to Build a Strong Team
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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