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    Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great

    By Esther Derby, Diana Larsen and Ken Schwaber

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    About this ebook

    Project retrospectives help teams examine what went right and what went wrong on a project. But traditionally, retrospectives (also known as “post-mortems”) are only held at the end of the project—too late to help. You need agile retrospectives that are iterative and incremental. You need to accurately find and fix problems to help the team today.

    Now Esther and Diana show you the tools, tricks and tips you need to fix the problems you face on a software development project on an on-going basis. You’ll see how to architect retrospectives in general, how to design them specifically for your team and organization, how to run them effectively, how to make the needed changes and how to scale these techniques up. You’ll learn how to deal with problems, and implement solutions effectively throughout the project—not just at the end.

    This book will help you:

    • Design and run effective retrospectives
    • Learn how to find and fix problems
    • Find and reinforce team strengths
    • Address people issues as well as technological
    • Use tools and recipes proven in the real world

    With regular tune-ups, your team will hum like a precise, world-class orchestra.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherO'Reilly Media, Inc.
    Release dateJul 26, 2006
    ISBN9781680503111
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    Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
    Author

    Esther Derby

    ESTHER DERBY draws on four decades of leading, observing, and living through organizational change, combining a deep knowledge of complex adaptive systems with an attention to people. She is the founder of esther derby associates, inc., working with a broad array of clients from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups. She also teaches workshops around the world, supporting leaders to amplify empowerment, engage their organizations in joint problem solving, and evolve their systems toward better results.

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    • 4/5
      Nice introduction to retrospecitves an the need for it. The first part of the book describes the process and steps of a retrospective and shows how to prepare one. Next the book continuous with activities (excercises) that you can do in the various stages of the retrospective. Usefulll, but it gives only a start. To do really effective ones, you will need a lot of experience that does not come forward well in this book.
    • 4/5
      A good catalog of exercises for the different phases of a retrospective. As the title suggests, the focus is on smaller, more frequent retrospectives. If your retrospectives are becoming stale because you are always using the same format, this is the book to refer to. Also has a nice and quick introduction on how to prepare as a facilitator.
    • 4/5
      Techniques called “agile” comprise a more iterative approach to developing software. In many ways, it treats software as an open text instead of a fixed product. Agile development is used in most leading software shops around the world. This book treats a specific element of agile development – the retrospective. After each iteration or release, the team is gathered to discuss the last period of time and to seek improvement for the next time.

      This approach is immensely helpful. It not only allows everyone to contribute to the group dynamics of software development, but it also provides a progressive framework so that knowledge is not lost. Software development is an especially quirky and peculiar area of life that is-like-but-is-not-like so many other disciplines (e.g., management, business, manufacturing, mathematics, arts, etc.). It is nice to have a book dedicated to this topic.

      This book provides examples of exercises to perform with the team. For example, a timeline of the project might be charted to facilitate what happened in the last release. Or a matrix can be charted to share different insights about the last iteration. These exercises comprise the heart and the value of the book.

      This book recommends performing an eight-hour retrospective after each release or after each iteration. I frankly could not imagine slowing down this frequently or for this long. Perhaps a one-hour focused retrospective (with one or two exercises) might be more helpful. Then again, I work with smaller teams that are continually having conversations such as these amongst themselves.

      Overall, this book provides exercises that are helpful to draw out conversation among all those involved in software development. I’ll use it as a references as I lead conversations about software.