Author: Esther Derby, Diane Larsen
Published: 2006
Publisher: The Pragmatic Bookshelf
Agile Principle # 12 – At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly. The “reflection” part typically happens in a retrospective meeting after every iteration . Unless retrospective meetings are well planned, well facilitated and result in clear cut action items for the team to “tune and adjust”, they will not be of much value. But a successful retrospective will enable a team to improve their capability and productivity and increase their capacity to deliver a high quality product. Moreover it will result in better teamwork and job satisfaction.
And how to get these benefits out of retrospectives is what exactly the authors of this book have attempted to teach us through this book.
A useful and handy book which each team should have !
More detailed summary at Bookworm Reads:Agile Retrospectives – Making Good Teams Great.
