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Agile Retrospective Gettingstarted
Agile Retrospective Gettingstarted
Retrospective essentials
What is a retrospective
A retrospective is a joint effort by the whole project team to make continuous improvement within the LEAN journey.
It helps the team to look back at the last iteration and have the team insight.
The team members will answer essentially the three questions below
What went well What can be improved What are the impediments/obstacles
Team will Identify three main topics they want to improve in next Sprint. Retrospectives takes hour and 1 day Can be structured into 5 sections (Cf. agenda on the right picture)
Setting the stage Setting working rules, Expectations, goal Establish a set of behavior that
will support the team in having productive discussions. Establish that team members are responsible for monitoring their interactions. Provide suggestions for day-today working agreements if the team doesn t already have them Don t forget to ask the team members:
What are your expectations from this retrospective
Moderator distributes postits to each team members Each team members gives his/her feedback on Post-its Different post-it color can be used to answer the three questions
What went well What can be improved What are the impediments/obstacles
Once each team member has sticked his/her Sad post-it on the flip-chart Moderator groups similar feedback in clusters on the Glad Flip chart Moderator according to the number of clusters give a certain number of points, here 5 points to put on any post-its