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Agile Retrospectives
Esther Derby and Diana Larsen have written the definitive book onagile retrospectives. You don’t have to be an agile team to take advan-tage of their book; you only have to want to improve. Follow their advice and your teams will be more successful.
Johanna Rothman
Author, speaker and consultant, Rothman Consulting Group,Inc. Two of the software industry’s leading facilitators have taken their many years of retrospective experience and distilled them into anapproachable reference for agile team leaders. For all of the self-madefacilitators out there who have been winging it, this book will pro- vide a solid foundation to improve the effectiveness of your iteration,release, and project retrospectives.
Dave Hoover
Lead Consultant, Agile Practices, Obtiva Corp. This book is a wonderful compendium of ways to keep retrospectivesfresh and teams learning.
Mike Cohn
Author of
Agile Estimating and Planning
This book is a must-read for all team leads, facilitators and everyoneinterested in driving improvements in the ways teams reflect, learnand function.
Sheila O’Connor, Ph.D.
Six Sigma Software Black Belt, LSI Logic, Engenio StorageGroup
Whatever you call it: retrospective, post-mortem, post-partum, post-project review. Your work can be better by stopping at regular inter- vals and asking, “What worked well that we don’t want to forget? What should be done differently?” It’s almost like free consulting withtwo of the best: Esther Derby and Diana Larsen. I facilitate retrospec-tives for a living and, believe me, I’m going to read my copy cover tocover—more than once!
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Co-author of
Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas
Sections
« prev | next »- Helping Your Team Inspect and
- 1.1 Set the Stage
- 1.2 Gather Data
- 1.3 Generate Insights
- 1.4 Decide What to Do
- 1.5 Close the Retrospective
- 2.1 Learning About the History and Environment
- 2.2 Shaping the Goal for the Retrospective
- 2.3 Determining Duration
- 2.4 Structuring a Retrospective
- 2.5 Selecting Activities
- Leading Retrospectives
- 3.1 Managing Activities
- 3.2 Managing Group Dynamics
- 3.3 Managing Time
- 3.4 Managing You
- 3.5 Taking Your Skills to the Next Level
- Activities to Set the Stage
- Activities to Gather Data
- Activities to Generate Insights
- Activities to Decide What to Do
- 9.1 Preparing for Release and Project Retrospectives
- 9.2 Including Cross-Organizational Perspectives
- 9.3 Leading Release and Project Retrospectives
- 9.4 A Retrospective at Every Ending
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