CHAPTER 12

Facilitate Retrospectives

In This Chapter

• How do you incorporate learning cycles within and across projects?

• How do you capture lessons learned for use in later projects?

When the team has a million and one things going on, the retrospective can get forgotten in the fray. That happened on a large project with eight sizeable course modules to be designed and developed over a four-month period by a team of five people. With a staggered start for the modules (one or two started every week for the first five weeks of the project), each iteration rolled in after the next without an obvious pause to reflect. At three months into the project, the team members’ patience with each other and the project was fraying. It seemed like the ...

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