Team Practices Group/Retrospectives/Offsite 2016-05

These notes are from the daily retrospectives during the TPG offsite in May 2016.

Positives

 * Enjoyed the space and spreading out on the couches
 * Good easels
 * Talking about why values are important
 * Ad-hoc chartwriter support
 * Happy w/Gradient discussion results
 * We got outputs!
 * Got to bring up "Tic-Tac-Toe of Coaching"
 * Cold Water
 * Learning about personal values
 * Outcome (agreement) of values discussion

Deltas

 * Schedule ambitious
 * Missed having real breakfast
 * Lack of wallspace
 * Paper leads to papercuts
 * No Arthur (who?)
 * Being away from home
 * Moar dots, in moar colors
 * Digressed, over-talked each other, impatience
 * Facilitator was also scribe
 * Full day of intense discussions is tiring, thinking a lot, could break up w/team-building
 * No clock in room

Positives

 * 4 PM wine
 * Food was good
 * Learned unexpected things from coaching style
 * Kristen guiding through groan zone
 * More conscious of over-talking
 * Clock helped
 * Felt good to marinate w/TPG
 * Negotiation exercise was energizing
 * Great effort to feed "The Axe"
 * Rotating facilitation
 * Varied participation formats
 * Graced enjoyed people with which she partnered

Deltas

 * Still hard to followup on paperwork
 * Food generally had sketchy execution
 * Felt less productive/tangible/did not learn how to say “no”
 * Coaching Cycle convo was isolating for Max
 * No real gym
 * 3 days would be better/flexible
 * Offsite “best practices” checklist would be useful