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For Scrum Masters Who've Watched Action Items Die · 6–18 Months In

Your Retro Action Items Die
Before Sprint Planning Starts.
Every. Single. Sprint.

It's called the Retro-to-Sprint Gap — the 48 hours where improvement actions silently disappear from your sprint. 75% of them never come back. No Scrum certification teaches you to fix this. This 90-minute system does — for $27.

Close the Gap for $27 → ✓ Immediate access  ·  ✓ Apply Monday
📊 75% of Retro Actions Fail — This Fixes Why
⚡ First Documented Improvement in 14 Days
📦 13 Done-For-You Templates
💰 $27 vs. $2,495 Certifications

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The Only Promise That Matters

In your next 2 sprints, you will complete at least
one measurable improvement — or this system failed.

Not "you'll learn a framework." Not "you'll feel more confident." A real improvement action, done, with a number attached — in 14 days.

🎯  8 out of 9 actions completed in 4 sprints 📈  25% cycle time improvement, documented ⏱  Standups: 25 min down to 12 min consistently 🐛  Escaped defects reduced 40% in 3 sprints ⚙️  PR reviews: 3.2 days down to 1.2 days 👥  Retro attendance: 60% back up to 95% 🎯  8 out of 9 actions completed in 4 sprints 📈  25% cycle time improvement, documented ⏱  Standups: 25 min down to 12 min consistently 🐛  Escaped defects reduced 40% in 3 sprints ⚙️  PR reviews: 3.2 days down to 1.2 days 👥  Retro attendance: 60% back up to 95%
The Problem

There's a Name for Why Your Action Items Disappear.
It's Called the Retro-to-Sprint Gap.

Tired team in a retrospective meeting
75% of retro actions
never get done
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They survive the retrospective. They don't survive sprint planning.

Separate improvement backlogs feel productive. In practice, they're graveyards. Out of sight, out of mind, gone by the next sprint.

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The same problems come up every single retro.

Sprint after sprint, your team raises the same issues. Nothing changes. Frustration builds. People stop showing up.

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You can't prove the value of your work.

When your manager asks "what did you accomplish?" you freeze. "I facilitated retrospectives" isn't an answer that survives a performance review.

<25% of retro actions actually get implemented (PMI Research)
12% of teams consistently assign deadlines to action items
84% of organizations score below high Agile competency

"No certification, no facilitation technique, no retrospective format addresses the Retro-to-Sprint Gap.
It's a structural failure — and it's the reason 75% of your best improvement ideas die within 48 hours."

Closing the Gap

Two Capabilities That Close the Retro-to-Sprint Gap.
Permanently.

Your $2,495 Scrum certification taught you how to run the meeting. Nobody taught you what happens after. This course builds the system that keeps action items alive from retrospective through sprint completion.

01
Filtering framework quadrant

The 4-Quadrant Impact Filter

Your Filtering Mechanism

A 4-quadrant framework that instantly separates what your team can fix from what requires organizational change. Stop wasting 70% of retrospective time on things nobody can actually change.

  • Focus 80% of energy on team-solvable, high-impact problems
  • Properly escalate organizational impediments with business framing
  • Stop learned helplessness before it kills team morale
02
Sprint tracking system

Sprint-Integrated Action Tracking

Your Execution Mechanism

Improvement actions become first-class sprint backlog items with owners, deadlines, and daily visibility. When it lives where the team already works, it gets done.

  • Actions committed in sprint planning, not forgotten afterward
  • Visible in standups alongside feature work
  • Closes the loop with measurable impact verification
What You Get

14 Days After You Close the Gap

Completed sprint board
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Your First Action Item That Survived Sprint Planning

One real action item, done. Not discussed. Not deferred. Done, with a measurable result attached.

Data dashboard showing improvement
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Documented Evidence of Your Impact

A growing Improvement Impact Log that answers "what have you accomplished?" with hard data: cycle time, defect rates, delivery speed.

Engaged team retrospective
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A Team That Believes in Retros Again

When people see actions get done, they show up. Attendance rises. Engagement returns. The cycle reinforces itself.

Confident professional presenting
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Job Security You Can Defend

When budget pressure hits, you're not the person arguing their value. You're the person with documented ROI from every sprint.

Real Results

One Team. Eight Weeks.
Before and After Closing the Gap.

Sprints 1–4 (The Gap Open)
  • Same 3 organizational impediments raised every single retrospective, unresolved
  • Vague actions: "improve communication," "better code quality" with no owners or deadlines
  • Retrospective attendance dropped from 100% to 60%
  • Scrum Master had nothing concrete to show in performance review
  • Team visibly disengaged, stopped believing anything would change
→
Sprints 5–8 (The Gap Closed)
Measured Results — 4 Sprints After Closing the Gap
PR Review Time
1.2d
↓ 63%
Escaped Defects
9/sprint
↓ 40%
Standup Duration
12 min
↓ 52%
Overall Cycle Time
↓ 25%
↑ 25%
Retro Attendance
95%
↑ 60%
8/9
committed improvement actions completed with measurable results — in 4 sprints. Organizational impediments: 2 of 3 formally resolved.
Your Instructor
Dejan Majkic, Course Instructor

Dejan Majkic

Course Instructor

  • MA in Computer Science & IT
  • 20+ Years Industry Experience
  • Certified Scrum Master & Product Owner
  • 14,000+ Students in 35+ Countries

"I watched my own team run flawless retrospectives for 6 months — and improve absolutely nothing. Attendance was high. Facilitation was good. The discussion was genuine. But every action item quietly disappeared before the next sprint started. I realized I was responsible for that failure. So instead of running another retro, I stopped and asked a different question: why does the workflow structurally kill these ideas? That question led me to research, build, and test this system. Now I teach it so you don't spend 6 months discovering the same expensive lesson I did."

Be Honest With Yourself

Who This Is — and Isn't — For

This course is built for a very specific person facing a very specific problem. Read both columns before you decide.

❌ This is NOT for you if…

  • ❌You're looking for more retrospective games, icebreakers, or facilitation formats
  • ❌You want certification prep or theoretical Agile frameworks
  • ❌You need organizational change management tools for large-scale transformations
  • ❌Your team's action items already get done consistently sprint-to-sprint
  • ❌You're an experienced Agile Coach looking for advanced coaching frameworks

✅ This IS for you if…

  • ✅You're 6–18 months in as a Scrum Master and retros generate good ideas that disappear
  • ✅You've watched the same problems get raised in three retros in a row with zero resolution
  • ✅You can't clearly answer "what did you accomplish this quarter?" in a performance review
  • ✅You want a system you can implement Monday — without org approval or new tools
  • ✅You sense your job is harder to defend than it should be, and you want documented ROI
Course Curriculum

16 Lectures. 5 Sections.
Everything You Need to Close the Retro-to-Sprint Gap.

90 minutes of focused instruction plus 13 downloadable templates and materials you can use the same week.

Discover the universal failure pattern destroying retrospective effectiveness, backed by PMI and Scrum Alliance data.

  • 1.1 — The Shocking Truth About Retrospective Failure
  • 1.2 — The Structural Root Cause and Actions Outside Workflow
  • 1.3 — Filter What Matters, Execute What Works (System Preview)

Master the 4-quadrant framework that separates what your team can fix from what requires organizational change.

  • 2.1 — The Locus of Control Problem (Covey's Framework Applied)
  • 2.2 — Quadrant 1: Team-Solvable, High Impact (Your 80% Focus Zone)
  • 2.3 — Quadrant 3: Organization-Dependent, Escalate Properly
  • 2.4 — Quadrants 2 and 4: Batch and Release
  • 2.5 — Facilitation Walkthrough: Running the Analysis Live
  • 📝 Quiz: Locus of Control Mastery Check
🛠 Deliverables: Locus of Control Analysis Canvas (blank + example), Escalation Protocol Template

Turn retrospective actions into sprint backlog items with owners, deadlines, and daily accountability.

  • 3.1 — The Action Item Definition of Done Checklist
  • 3.2 — Sprint-Integrated Action Tracker Walkthrough
  • 3.3 — Your Sprint Planning Integration Script (word-for-word)
  • 📝 Quiz: Sprint Tracking Mechanics
🛠 Deliverables: Sprint-Integrated Action Tracker (blank + example), Capacity Allocation Worksheet, Sprint Planning Script Card, Action Item DoD Checklist, Tool Setup Guides (Jira, Azure DevOps, Trello)

Document retrospective ROI and demonstrate concrete evidence of your impact for performance reviews and job security.

  • 4.1 — Proving Your Value with the Improvement Impact Log
  • 4.2 — Case Study: One Team's 8-Week Transformation
  • 📝 Quiz: Value Demonstration
🛠 Deliverables: Improvement Impact Log (blank + 6-entry example), Facilitation Pocket Card

Walk away with a complete game plan you can run in your very next retrospective.

  • 5.1 — Your Next Retrospective Game Plan
  • 5.2 — Product Owner Objection Responses
  • 5.3 — Course Conclusion and Next Steps
🛠 Deliverables: Product Owner Objection Responses, First Retrospective Preparation Checklist
What's Included

Everything to Go From
Retro Fatigue to Real Results

Core Course

From Retro Fatigue to Real Results

16 lectures · 3 quizzes · 5 sections · 90 minutes of focused, immediately actionable instruction designed for how Scrum Masters actually work.

$97 value
📋

Locus of Control Analysis Canvas

Blank + pre-filled example. Run the 4-quadrant framework in your next retro with zero setup.

$5 value
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Sprint-Integrated Action Tracker

Blank + example with a real completed sprint. Works with Jira, Azure DevOps, Trello, and spreadsheets.

$5 value
📈

Improvement Impact Log

6-entry example across 3 sprints. Start documenting ROI from Day 1, ready for performance reviews.

$5 value
🎤

Sprint Planning Script Card

Word-for-word language to negotiate improvement capacity with Product Owners, even resistant ones.

$5 value
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Tool Setup Guides (Jira, Azure DevOps, Trello)

Step-by-step configuration so you're not blocked by your tools on Day 1.

$5 value
🛡

Escalation Protocol Template

A structured way to bring organizational impediments to leadership with business impact framing.

$5 value
📝

Action Item DoD Checklist

Verify every action item is specific, owned, time-boxed, and valuable before it leaves the retro.

$5 value
🗂

Facilitation Pocket Card + Prep Checklist

Quick-reference cards for running the system confidently, even in your first retrospective with it.

$5 value
📦
13 downloadable materials and templates included

Every file is ready to use immediately. No editing, no setup, no extra tool purchase required.

Course $97 + 13 Templates ($5 each) = $162 value
Yours Today for Just $27
Bonus Perks

You Get More Than a Course

Three extras included with your enrollment at no additional cost.

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Private Community Access

Join a community of Scrum Masters working through the same challenges. Share wins, ask questions, and get peer support from practitioners in the trenches with you.

Free with enrollment
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Finish all lectures and quizzes, earn a verified certificate of completion. Add it to your LinkedIn, include it in your portfolio, or share it with your manager.

Issued on 100% completion
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No Scrum certification teaches this. No retrospective format fixes it. This is the only system built specifically to keep your action items alive from retro to sprint completion — and it costs less than lunch.

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✅Sprint Planning Script Card, word-for-word language
✅Tool Setup Guides for Jira, Azure DevOps, Trello and more
✅Escalation Protocol Template and Action Item DoD Checklist
✅What to Measure Guide
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It's the structural failure point where retrospective action items disappear between the end of your retrospective and the start of sprint planning. 75% of action items die in this gap because they're never embedded into sprint workflow. No Scrum certification or facilitation training addresses this — they teach you how to run the meeting, not what happens after. This course is built entirely around closing that gap.

This course is specifically built for Scrum Masters in their first 6 to 18 months. The frameworks are practical, not academic, and every tool is ready to use without extra approvals or experience. Honestly, the earlier you build these habits, the better your career trajectory.

Section 3 includes a word-for-word sprint planning script built specifically for resistant Product Owners. You'll learn to frame improvement capacity as risk mitigation and velocity protection, not as taking time away from features. Most teams stop the negotiation within 2 to 3 sprints once the pattern is established.

Yes. The course includes step-by-step setup guides for Jira, Azure DevOps, Trello, and spreadsheet-based workflows. The integration principle is tool-agnostic: improvement actions live where your team already works every day. The guides remove every technical barrier so you can get started immediately.

Most retrospective training focuses on formats, icebreakers, and facilitation techniques. This course addresses something entirely different: the structural problem that causes action items to fail after the retrospective ends. You won't learn how to run a better meeting. You'll learn how to build a system that makes retrospectives produce real change.

The course is built around a specific promise: within two weeks of completing it, you should have your first completed improvement action with a measurable result. The case study team saw 25% cycle time improvement within 4 sprints. Results depend on your team's context, but the system is designed for fast, visible wins, not long-term theory.

90 minutes total across 16 lectures, 3 quizzes, and 5 sections. It's fully self-paced. Most students finish in one focused session or split across a couple of sittings. You get lifetime access, so you can revisit any section or tool walkthrough whenever your team context changes.

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Every Sprint You Don't Close This Gap,
Your Best Improvement Ideas Die — and Your Value Gets Harder to Prove.

Your team raises the right problems. They die in the Retro-to-Sprint Gap. Close it — and start building the documented evidence trail that protects your career.

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