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

8Distributed Retrospectives

The advance of globalization means that fewer and fewer teams work together in one place and are instead spread out over many places. This naturally creates a distance between team members. In the best of cases, these divided teams are all in the same time zone or in time zones with only very small time differences (one or two hours). However, ever more teams are distributed over the whole globe and whose working hours have absolutely no overlap. In addition to the time difference and physical distance between team members, there can also be distances created by culture, language, politics, or history. It goes without saying that this division has a large impact on the team and thus also on the carrying out of retrospectives. ...