Retrospectives Antipatterns and Beyond with Aino Vonge Corry

Retrospectives are indispensable for continuous learning and improvement. There are some bad practices known as antipatterns that can result in the failure of retrospectives.

We are happy to feature Aino Vonge Corry (Author, Retrospectives Antipatterns) in the recent interview to discuss about what are the retrospective antipatterns, what is the biggest challenge for retrospective when we talk about people and distributed teams, common symptoms to know you are failing at retrospectives and solutions to make the process of retrospectives enjoyable and valuable.

Interviewee: Aino Vonge Corry (Author, Retrospectives Antipatterns)

Aino is Author of the book Retrospectives Antipatterns. After gaining her Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2001 Aino Corry spent the next 10 years failing to choose between being a researcher/teacher in academia, and being a teacher/facilitator in industry. She eventually squared the circle by starting her own company, metadeveloper, which develops developers by teaching CS, teaching how to teach CS, inviting speakers to IT conferences, and facilitating software development in various ways. She has facilitated retrospectives and other meetings for the past 15 years during which time she has made all the mistakes possible in that field. Aino has lived in Stockholm, Lund, and Cambridge, but she is now back in Aarhus, Denmark, where she lives with her family, and a growing collection of plush cephalopods.

Interviewer: Noopur Pathak (Chief Media Editor, INNOVATION ROOTS)

Digitisation of Financial Services with Lalit Mehta

There is no exaggeration in saying that the rise of technology has been a game changer for different domains in past few years. Financial Services are also not untouched with this innovation. In our recent interview, we featured Lalit Mehta (Co-Founder and Director, Decimal) and discussed about different aspects of digitisation of Financial Services.

He has highlighted the challenges we are still facing in digitising the Financial Services and shared some insights on the readiness of BFSI in India to become digital. We discussed in brief about the role MSME playing in its growth.

Interviewee: Lalit Mehta

Lalit is co-Founder and Director of Decimal, handling Product Development, Solution Architecture, and Strategy. He has worked in diverse functions including Sales, Pre-Sales, Development, Delivery and Customer Management. His prior stints include Lumis Partners, ADP India and software majors Polaris India and SQL Star. He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and B.E. in Mechanical Engineering with 22 years of senior management experience.

Interviewer: Noopur Pathak (Chief Media Editor, INNOVATION ROOTS)