If you facilitate retrospectives, you know they should be an opportunity for team improvement. But let’s be honest—too often, they feel repetitive, uninspired, or downright ineffective.

Maybe your retrospectives feel like Groundhog Day, with the same discussions and no real change. Maybe your team is disengaged, offering little input. Or maybe retros just aren’t leading to the improvements they should.

Sound familiar? If so, this bundle is for you.

We surveyed hundreds of agile professionals and heard your frustrations:  

  • Retros feel like a checkbox exercise – teams go through the motions but don’t get value.
  • Engagement is a struggle – quiet teams don’t speak up, and strong personalities dominate.
  • No follow-through – action items rarely turn into real change.
  • Remote retrospectives feel flat – online meetings make it harder to facilitate meaningful discussions.
  • Teams resist retrospectives – some think they’re a waste of time, especially mature teams.

The Solution: Two Courses, One Goal: Better Retrospectives

We’ve bundled two essential courses that give you both a strong foundation and practical troubleshooting strategies to fix common retrospective problems.

Two Courses for the Price of One!

Course 1: Better Retrospectives

A great retrospective is more than just a routine—it’s a chance to boost team performance and morale. But to make them work, you need the right framework, facilitation skills, and variety to keep them fresh and effective.

This course is perfect for Scrum Masters and team members who want a repeatable, engaging retrospective framework—one that fosters continuous improvement without feeling forced or formulaic.

Illustration of retrospectives

Course Outline

  1. Understanding Retrospectives – Understand their true purpose beyond just “what went well and what didn’t.”
  2. Facilitation Techniques That Work – Master essential facilitation tools to guide teams through idea generation, discussion, and decision-making without getting stuck in endless debates..
  3. The Retrospectives Menu – Build a diverse set of retrospective formats, to ensure every session is structured yet engaging.
  1. Creating Engaging Retrospectives - Use creative techniques like the Three Little Pigs retrospective or the TRIZ method to encourage fresh thinking and prevent retros from feeling stale and repetitive.
  2. Tailoring Retrospectives to Team Dynamics – Learn how to adjust your approach for quiet teams vs. dominant personalities, and leverage tools to make participation easier for everyone.
  3. Enhancing Participation and Building Trust – Create psychological safety to ensure retrospectives remain a space for honest reflection and problem-solving.

Course 2: Retrospectives Repair Guide

Even with a strong framework, retrospectives don’t always go smoothly. This course takes a troubleshooting approach, tackling 10 of the most common retrospective problems with practical solutions you can implement right away.

Each lesson in this course follows a structured repair guide:

  1. Identify the problem
  2. Uncover the root cause
  3. Apply real-world solutions that work

With this course, you won’t just recognize problems—you’ll have the tools to fix them.

Illustration of toolbox

Some of the Common Issues You’ll Fix:

  1. How to Handle Retrospectives with Quiet Teams – Learn techniques to encourage introverted or hesitant team members to share their thoughts.
  2. How to Get Your Team to Go Deeper – Move beyond surface-level discussions and uncover meaningful insights that drive real change.
  3. How to Handle Retrospectives With a Remote Team – Make virtual retrospectives engaging and inclusive, ensuring equal participation from all team members.
  4. How to Start Making Real Progress – Ensure retrospective action items translate into measurable improvements instead of being forgotten.
  5. How to Handle Teams That Hate Retrospectives – Overcome resistance and turn skeptics into engaged participants who see value in retrospectives.
  1. How to Handle Outsiders Who Want to Observe – Protect psychological safety and keep retrospectives a team-only space, even when management wants to sit in.
  2. How to Handle Teams Who Think There’s Nothing Left to Improve – Reignite continuous improvement in teams that believe they have no more challenges to address.
  3. How to Handle Issues Out of Your Control – Learn strategies to surface and escalate organizational blockers while focusing on what your team can change.
  4. How to Handle Retrospectives When the Sprint Goes Really Well – Celebrate wins, analyze successes, and turn good practices into consistent habits.
  5. How to Use Retrospectives to Build a Strong Team – Leverage retrospectives to foster trust, collaboration, and a high-performing team culture.

What People Are Saying

I liked the course and would really recommend it to other people, especially people who are at the beginning of their journey. For myself, it was mostly a refresher: a great one, that is.

Tom Vanbaarle
Tom Vanbaarle

My biggest “aha” moment came in Module 5 when Brian said: “We spend too much time coaching for the average person instead of focusing on the individuals within our teams.” The course has taught me to tailor retrospectives to my team's unique dynamics, use diverse facilitation tools for engagement, and follow a structured framework to make sessions more productive and impactful. Brian's insightful scenarios made his approach easy to understand and apply.

Monique Richardson

My struggle is keeping [retrospectives] fresh, with a new approach from a different perspective. I liked how you dove into how to generate those ideas and, and ways to have those kinds of discussions.

Ann Allcott

The course covers all levels of expertise at a great pace. You're never too old to retrospect.

Paul Menezes
Paul Menezes
vs-brian-photo.jpg

Course Creator: Brian Milner

As the Senior Vice President of Agile Training and Coaching, Brian ensures that Mountain Goat Software has the absolute best training and coaching available. He’s passionate about making a difference in people’s day-to-day work, influenced by his own experience of transitioning to Scrum and seeing improvements in work-life balance, honesty, respect, and the quality of work.

“I love that I have the ability to make that kind of change in other people’s life as well.”

Based in Dallas, he’s a Cowboys fan, and when he’s not spending time with his family or geeking out about Star Wars, you might just catch him sitting in with a local band for an evening of live music.

Fun fact: In his past life as a performer, he’s shared a stage with Hank Williams, Jr., Brenda Lee, and Pat Boone...though not all at the same time.

The Exclusive Bundle Offer

Each course sells for $99, but if you register before 9 PM PDT on April 17, you’ll get both courses for the price of one—just $99 total.

That’s a 50% savings on the most practical and actionable retrospective training available.

Two Courses for the Price of One!

What You Get

  • Lifetime access to both courses
  • Actionable strategies you can implement immediately
  • Frameworks, facilitation skills, and troubleshooting tactics
  • The confidence to run retrospectives that truly improve your team

Buy Now

Asking questions

Is This Bundle Right for You?

  • You’re a Scrum Master or agile professional responsible for retrospectives.
  • You want a repeatable framework for consistently effective retros.
  • You’ve hit roadblocks and need proven solutions to fix them.
  • You’re looking for practical, real-world guidance—not just theory.
  • You’re tired of retros feeling stale and unproductive.

If you nodded along to any of these, you’ll love the Better Retrospectives and Retrospectives Repair Guide.

Offer Deadline: Thursday April 17, 9pm PDT

Click the button below to get your bundle before the offer expires:

Buy Now