It’s funny, when I did my undergraduate degree, a lot of my assignments would come with a 10% reflective essay which the majority of my peers loathed with a passion. Ok there were some issues in my degree and the way it was managed, so my peers took a lot of opportunities to complain and be lazy, but it wasn’t until my third and final year that I actually started to understand the important of regular reflections and saw the value of what my tutor was doing. I just wished it had been delivered with more clarity to our young and stupid brains in the first year of study.
I still forget to reflect from time to time, even sat in a sprint retro I’ll sometimes think “why are we doing this again” and “what’s that outside my window” - so thank you for reminding me to reflect again!
Looking forward to the post about incident retrospectives 👀
It’s funny, when I did my undergraduate degree, a lot of my assignments would come with a 10% reflective essay which the majority of my peers loathed with a passion. Ok there were some issues in my degree and the way it was managed, so my peers took a lot of opportunities to complain and be lazy, but it wasn’t until my third and final year that I actually started to understand the important of regular reflections and saw the value of what my tutor was doing. I just wished it had been delivered with more clarity to our young and stupid brains in the first year of study.
I still forget to reflect from time to time, even sat in a sprint retro I’ll sometimes think “why are we doing this again” and “what’s that outside my window” - so thank you for reminding me to reflect again!