RETRO
ON
RETRO
OG name was Retrofitting Suburbia
Rethinking the Retail Strip
This Report
Launched in January 2022
ESRI Storymap
Parcel-level dataset / analysis
JavaScript Interactive Map
Collaboration w/ LandUse
Launch event / speakers
Tableau visualizations
Narrative vignette
Realted presentations & project back to 2018
Capacity & suitability data work Spring 2020
Final push several weeks in Dec and Jan
Dripped into reserved to do Retrospective
Funding from many pools, including Barr/MetroCommonAll sorts
Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand.
-Norm Kerth, Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Review
Variety of project retrospective options to choose from
Chris Kuschel
Jessie Partridge Guerrero
Tim Reardon
Caitlin Spence
Kimberly Nguyen
Ryan Kelly
Many folks involved over project lifecycle
Chose format geared for 6-8 participants
Retrospective Process Chosen
Something the team is doing well and whose value you acknowledge.
1
Keep Doing
Already being done; you see some value, but would rather cut down a little bit.
2
Less Of
Already being done which you believe will bring more value if done even more.
3
More Of
5 min to create
10 min together
5 min to create
10 min together
5 min to create
10 min together
4
Actions
Tagged feedback into a number of groups
- Keep improving and refining our collaboration in tools /documents?
- Incorporate the iteration that was successful in get us to this end product?
- Improve on our iterative process?
- Make our next event and media as successful?
- Find more case studies and examples that highlight work and drive engagement?
- Build on the features identify here in next product?
- Clarify decision making in future projects?
- Assign decision making power in future project?
- Leverage tools in decision making process?
- Have less editing tools and streamline process?
- Allocated budget differently as to not go as over?
- Feedback from different teams or groups be added to process?
Takeaways / How Might We...
We have
options in how to run a retrospective
4
Action
That action step would've been next
To clarify and document some tasks
- Test a new decision making methods
- Clarify w/ ESRI storymap feedback process
- Clarify ESRI feedback process
First thought Google's
No account needed
Free and often used at MAPC
However
Limited in sticky note characters
Limited in canvas size, anticipated a lot of stickies
Many Templates Out There
