Improving Agile Retrospectives: Helping Teams Become More Efficient, 1/e

6Systemic Retrospectives

The first thing I wanted to do when I joined a company a couple of years ago was to observe the teams and get an idea of how they worked. The Scrum framework had been implemented, so I sat in on all the related meetings—the daily stand-up, the sprint review, the sprint planning, and, of course, the retrospectives. After only a short time it became clear to me that it was not going as well as it could and that the Scrum process had started to fall apart in some places. At this point, the company had been working with Scrum for about a year. Team members were trying to work agile in all areas, and they had made great progress. They had begun to introduce TDD (test-driven development), and they had established a continuous ...