I did a retrospective in the way I would have done it with a team. First – I created a timeline. I use my borisgloger moleskines. I put in all significant events of this week. And this was a lot: 42 events I found remarkable in this week … my life is obviously not boring :)

I identified what event was a reason for a sad emotion, and I identified then which event caused a positive feeling. This is a very interesting exercise. I learned a lot about my motivations.

Then I created a mind map for „what went well“ and one for „what could be improved. A lot of things went well. All can be also enhanced and improved. But the real points I need to improve on my „what could be improved?“-list are:

• Projects: To many open loops
• Scrum – Daily Scrum should be performed.
• Scrum – A burn down chart should be performed.
• Things: I need to work more on my consolidation of the list.
• Scrum – Write all things to do as Stories.
• Brazil: Need to get a better understanding what I need to do now.
• One project — confidential, here are three topics that needs to be improved.

Now I know on what I need to concentrate to improve in the next week.

Oh – btw …. The fact, that I committed myself to make all this process public helped me to do this today. I did not wanted to tell you tomorrow I failed completely.

Thanks for reading.