Interactive Session on "Taking biases into account : Why retrospectives promise more and deliver less" by Deepak Koul, Manager QA, Red Hat at #ATAGTR2021. #ATAGTR2021 was the 6th Edition of Global Testing Retreat. The video recording of the session is now available on the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud54lj9jO70 To know more about #ATAGTR2021, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPL4RVuGNXU

1. Taking biases into account
Why retrospectives promise more and
deliver less
Deepak Koul
Engineering Manager, Red Hat

2. About me

3. About this session
Rethink retrospectives

4. Reflection (noun)
consideration of some subject matter, idea, or purpose

5. Retrospection (noun)
Reflection in anticipation and with a purpose

6. Reflection-in-action vs Reflection-on-action

7. Experiencing self vs Remembering self

9. The 5R framework for reflection
Bain et al. (2002)
The 5 stages are:
★ Reporting of the context of the experience
★ Responding to the experience (observations, feelings, thoughts, etc.)
★ Relating the experience to knowledge and skills you already have
★ Reasoning about the significant factors/theory to explain the experience
★ Reconstructing your practice by planning future actions for a similar
experience

10. Biases
★ Recency Bias
★ Halo Effect
★ Law of Small Numbers
★ Sunk Cost Fallacy

11. ★ Retrospect frequently and in the
moment.
★ Reflection is a skill.
★ Enable fair communication distribution
in the team.

12. Thanks!
Twitter : @koultronix
Linkedin : dkoul