Are your retrospectives producing value for your team? Have they turned into unfocused complaining sessions? Or have people stopped coming altogether? Understand what's going wrong and learn how you can bring value back to your retrospectives (hint: it doesn't have to do with incentivizing with food or popular TV show themes).

This session is presented by Phil Ledgerwood. Phil is a twenty-year veteran of the software development industry in the Kansas City area. If you’re in the Kansas City area, he is two degrees of separation away from any programmer you know and has probably worked for, at, or with your company.

Phil has incorporated Lean methodologies into software development just like his father used to do in manufacturing. When he partnered with Travis Dietz to start Integrity Inspired Solutions in 2012, they laid the foundation in Lean to make the custom software development enterprise more humane, predictable, and focused on the success of everyone involved.