If you are a ScrumMaster or Coach or Project Manager or Process Facilitator of any kind, I encourage you to become a master of Retrospectives. I just happened upon this great little set of slides and presentation notes about Retrospectives by a couple of people, Sean Yo and Matthew Campbell, done a couple months ago. Very helpful with some practical information, some great links… I strongly recommend checking it out. My only concern is that they limit the scope of retrospectives too much. I have a list of topics that I think can and should be considered in a retrospective:
- Technology / tools
- Work space / physical environment
- Corporate culture
- Corporate standards and policies
- Teamwork
- Work planning and execution
- Skill sets
- Interpersonal dynamics
- External groups
- Personal circumstances and needs
- The process you are using
This list comes from a presentation I used to include as part of my Certified ScrumMaster course. (Now, in my course I teach three specific methods of doing retrospectives as part of an in-depth simulation exercise.) Here is a PDF version of the Retrospectives Module.
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