Meetings suck. Most should be an email. But there was ONE that I loved.
The Retrospective. And every startup should run it.
Retros were my favorite meetings with my team at Uber.
I used these meetings to get the team to:
(A) Reflect on our work/progress from the prior week.
(B) Discuss ways to improve in the future.
It’s something I took from agile/product teams I’ve worked with.
And they helped raise the bar quickly and iteratively across our entire team.
✔️ Why this was my favorite meeting at Uber and the only one worth running long term.
✔️ How to create tighter feedback loops and share insights across your teams.
✔️ How to break your teams out of their “Silos” and actually get them to collaborate.
✔️ How to avoid letting issues stay bottled up and festering over time.
✔️ To re-program how you think about running team meetings.
✔️ The 9-step process to running a successful Retro meeting.
✔️ The secret “Kaizen” question that unlocks continuous improvement.
✔️ To streamline the process of documenting actions to cut down on any post-meeting "homework"