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Planning for Effective Agile Retrospectives
Agile retrospectives--the process of inspecting what has happened during a particular timeframe and creating action plans for improvement--is a critical success factor in any iterative and incremental set of practices. The 12th principle supporting the Agile Manifesto states: “At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.” In Scrum, an agile project management framework, retrospectives are considered one of the basic practices that must be followed. Retrospectives are at the core of the “process-centric” feedback loop built into the Scrum framework.
In order to get that incremental improvement, your retrospectives must be valuable and effective. A valuable retrospective is much more than sitting around a table discussing the pluses and deltas of what happened in a sprint. In order to ensure that the time in a retrospective is well spent, I understand that I must invest my own time in planning for that meeting--and that the time spent planning is often a key factor in the success of the outcome. When I’m planning a retrospective, I know that I need to take the time to consider who to invite, what room to use, which activities to choose and what materials I need to create before I ever walk in to meet with the team.
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