Asking for a Better Future
Asking for a Better Future
Support your team during retrospectives with solution-focused questions
About the Book
In IT and other technical fields, analyzing reigns supreme: If you understand a problem in all its intricacies, then you can fix it. But what if the same does not apply to "people problems"? *mind blown*
Following this assumption, we can adapt our go-to questions for retrospectives and other conversations to reach a productive outcome faster and become hopeful. This uplifting energy buoys the team to tackle next steps more successfully.
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Table of Contents
- Hi there!
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“The solution doesn’t care how the problem came to be”
- Honoring the problem without “asking into it”
- Solution focus – Who dat?
- Answer space – Questions influence their answers
- What does that mean for retrospectives?
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The Questions
- “What for?” instead of “Why?”
- Soften fixed statements with “until now” or “right now”
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Set the Stage
- “Positive and True”
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Gather Data and Generate Insight
- “When you’ve reached your goal, what does that look like?” or “What would you like to have happen?”
- “And what instead?”
- “What difference will it make?”
- “And what else?”
- Silence
- Fit for a movie script
- “In the here and now: When is the world already like in the better future (at least a little bit)?”
- “What should stay the way it is now?”
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Decide What to Do
- “And what needs to happen for this to happen?”
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Closing the Retrospective
- “How confident are you …?”
- Just as important: Listening!
- Would you like to know more?
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Appendix aka even more SF
- Attitudes and Principles
- Notes
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