Chapter 22. The retrospective: working together to improve

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Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

 
 --Albert Einstein

All agile methods, whether Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), or custom, support stopping to reflect on the process on a regular basis. A project retrospective normalizes the team on the issues encountered and provides an opportunity for improvement, which everyone desires.

The inherent flaw with retrospectives and postmortems is they often turn into complaint sessions, and participants leave without a clear plan of attack. This chapter provides a process to eliminate these problems.

First, you'll give participants time to reflect on the project before the retrospective meeting. Second, ...

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