14

Run Meaningful Retrospectives

A retrospective is an event that allows teams to reflect on how they’re working together, in a blame-free, safe environment. The goals of this event are to learn from their collective experience, to recognize the team’s strengths, and to explore ways to improve the team’s effectiveness in the future.

Agile software development is all about continuous improvement. The iterative process allows the team to learn from experience through feedback and reflection. Retrospectives are one of the most powerful reflective thinking practices in the agile toolbox.

Yet, teams conduct retrospectives or retros infrequently. In a distributed setup, they can be rather painful to orchestrate as well. Can an async-first approach ...

Get The Async-First Playbook: Remote Collaboration Techniques for Agile Software Teams now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.