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Retrospectives

  • 10 Agile Retrospectives Exercises - by Luis Goncalves

  • 11 Ideas to Spice up Your Retrospective - by Barry Overeem. "In this blog post I've shared some ideas on how to spice up the Retrospective."

  • A 5-why root cause analysis retrospective - by Sandy Mamoli. "I wrote this to illustrate and examplify a retrospective technique that worked extremely well for our team. I think this was one of the best retrospectives I have ever participated in and I hope other people will give it a shot and share their experiences."

  • Adding Another Dimension to the Traditional Scrum Retrospective Format - by Paddy Corry. "Scrum masters need tactics to help teams see ways to improve their system without expending too much effort. The day job is busy enough! This post is about a retrospective format can potentially help with that."

  • Agenda and Ideas - by Tony Bonfante. "The following is a recommended agenda for a 1 hour Retrospective. There are different formulas out there for retrospective time per weeks in the sprint. 1 hour to 1-1/2 hours for a 2-week sprint should serve quite well. If you engage your soft skills of scanning the room and leading from behind, you’ll be able to judge what’s best for your team. If the activities are tightly run without rambling discussions, 1 hour should work fine for a standard team of 6-9 members. You’ll get better results if you keep things fairly fast paced, so lean towards a shorter versus a longer meeting and keep things moving. Your team will thank you for getting to a quick conclusion."

  • Agile Retrospective Resource Wiki - "This is a resource for sharing retrospective plans, tips & tricks, tools and ideas to help us get the most out of our retrospectives. "

  • An Insight into Joint Retrospectives - by Madhavi Ledalla. "There is a challenge in doing team-level retrospectives when the team is part of a very big group of Scrum teams, involving complex and interdependent work at large scale, and working on a common backlog. If the teams are doing retrospectives at their team level, there is a good chance that their focus is only on short-term issues that are most concerning for them alone."

  • Awesome Retrospectives - "A curated list of resources for facilitating and learning about retrospectives"

  • Energizing Retrospective – Energize Your Team Retrospective With This Easy Exercise - by Luis Goncalves. "Most of us wish that a retrospective will leave us energized and super excited to get going on actions. Sam and Karen from Growing Agile follow an exercise for an energizing retrospective. Take a look at the structure of the exercise below."

  • EasyRetro - An open-source tool for distributed agile retrospective

  • Fun Retrospectives - Activities and ideas for making agile retrospectives more engaging

  • Random Retro - Starting meaningful conversations doesn’t need to be difficult. Get a hand-picked Retrospective format easily and quickly

  • Retromat - "Planning your next agile retrospective? Start with a random plan, change it to fit the team's situation, print it and share the URL. Or browse around for new ideas!"

  • Retrospective Agile Facilitator Role and Responsibilities - by Luis Goncalves

  • Retrospective: Do the Team Radar - by Christiaan Verwijs. "The ‘Team Radar’ is one of my favorites. It strikes a nice balance between reflection as a team and as an individual. It’s also one of the best methods to make transparent where a team agrees and where it doesn’t, automatically prioritizing what needs attention."

  • Retrospective Exercises Repository - by Stefan Wolpers. "Creating a retrospective exercises repository is an easy way to make retrospectives more engaging as well as save efforts when your product delivery organization comprises of more than one scrum team. Remember: sharing is caring."

  • Return of the Retrospective - Prioritising continuous improvement (Slides) - by Ryan McKergow. "The aim of this session is to empower you to change things up within your team or company and bring the retrospective back to life. You will learn about a number of new and different retrospective techniques that you can start using immediately back at your company. It’s time for the return of the retrospectives!"

  • Team Culture Retrospective - by Andrew Blain. "Different teams have different mixes of people, with different motivations. The Team Culture Retrospective is an activity which aims to inspect team culture and drive targeted actions for improving culture in line with how the team is motivated."

  • Technical Debt Wall Retrospective - by Fabio Pereira. The post describes how to run a Retrospective on technical debt sorting it by Effort and Pain.

  • The Happy Marriage of Retrospectives and Software Evolution - by Adam Tornhill. "In this article we’ll focus on one of the central, and often neglected, practices or agile methodologies: Retrospectives. You’ll see why retrospectives get abandoned, the unfortunate consequences, and how you can improve them by a software evolutionary approach that uncovers the impact your work has on the system as a whole."

  • 'Three Buckets': a simple way to clear the air in Scrum Teams - by Christiaan Verwijs. "A simple format that I've developed over the years is called 'Three Buckets'. I use it to give everyone the opportunity to share their biggest frustrations while also highlighting what is working well. From there, we identify improvements to limit further frustrations. Despite initial tension within the teams I've worked with, teams always appreciate how powerful this format is in clearing the air."

  • Your Agile Journey with the Backpacking Retrospective Exercise - by Ben Linders. "The backpacking retrospective exercise can be used by teams and organizations to visualize their path to agility and decide what they will take along on their journey."

Books

  • Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives - by Luis Gonçalves and Ben Linders. "This pocket book contains many exercises that you can use to do retrospectives, supported with the “what” and “why” of retrospectives, the business value and benefits that they can bring you, and advice for introducing and improving retrospectives."