retrospective

When a team do their first few retrospectives, it's a useful to run a "Safety Check" to get a sense of who feels comfortable talking.

It took us a few months before we established a scheme that worked for everyone but without retrospectives it might have taken a lot longer.

As can be seen, knowledge sharing was the subject of several retrospectives.

Moss has been having a moment recently, with books, retrospectives and special events all praising her as the last great model.

The goal of retrospectives, which can be held at any time during the lifecycle, is to identify potential areas for improvement.

In short, teams unable to make any changes after their retrospectives are, by and large, wasting their time by even doing a retrospective.

From the coachers' perspective, retrospectives also serve as tools for the enhancement of a conceptual change.

Retrospectives certainly require some vulnerability to be effective.

When a team first starts with retrospectives they will find that they come up with plenty of actions that are internal to the team.

Once introduced, refer to it as situations arise in the team and use it as material for retrospectives.

A discussion on the Retrospectives Yahoo Group examined how to adapt a retrospective to work across multiple sites, with a distributed team.

If you work alongside other teams that use retrospectives then it may be possible to take turns to facilitate them for each other.

apart from conserving and acquiring film materials , the archive regularly holds exhibitions and retrospectives.

Retrospectives can be held at major milestones or at the end of release cycles.

It co- organises two film retrospectives with the community arts centres each year to arouse public interest in local cinema.

Retrospectives also mean taking action, doing experiments and following through.

Retrospectives at the end of each sprint to improve the process.

Retrospectives use a specific structure designed to defuse disagreements and to shift the focus to learning from the experience.

Esther and DIana's book is a down-to-earth, pragmatic approach to facilitating on-going retrospectives.

In addition to the individual team retrospectives the whole team should participate in a joint retrospective.

InfoQ: Teams have been using Norman Kerth's useful site and a book on retrospectives, which I suspect you also use. . .

We wanted to show that team leaders and team members could lead the process themselves for short, tightly-focused iteration retrospectives.

Practices with 20% (or better) increases in adoption included: taskboard, iteration planning, daily standup, retrospectives.

Can you tell us a real story about a team has that found retrospectives a helpful tool?

Retrospectives are a tool that a team can use for positive change to shift from following a process to driving their process.

Embracing retrospectives helps a team finetune their process at a sustainable pace.

Participate fully in all Scrum rituals, including the daily scrum and the retrospectives.

What types of data does your team collect and use during retrospectives?

When people don't see their changes acted on, they are discouraged from doing further retrospectives.

How does your distributed team do retrospectives?

Most of the writing about Agile Retrospectives focuses on basics of how to conduct them and what formats you might use.

InfoQ: What one message do you want people to hear about retrospectives right now?

We now describe two retrospectives on knowledge sharing and explain how they can foster conceptual change.

Management should take part in the retrospectives I discussed in Part 1 of this series.

Illustrations of the retrospective cycle by retrospectives on knowledge sharing