I’m a big fan of retrospectives having found them incredibly useful in ensuring teams can focus on continously improving their process. However they are difficult to get right and I know many teams struggle to get much out of them and often give up altogether. I think this is a big mistake.
Firstly, if you haven’t read it, I’d highly recommend Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Darby, Larsen & Schwaber. A great introduction to retrospectives with a lot of plans and ideas to help you out (although I have to say I find many of them too long for my liking).
However, beyond that book there really isn’t much else available so I’ve started a wiki to collect retrospective resources. Without further ado I’m delighted to announce:
The Agile Retrospective Resource Wiki or http://retrospectivewiki.org
A plea for contributors
Everything else you need to know is on the wiki, but I would like to take this opportunity make a plea for contributors. The content is currently a bit limited as I’m the only contributor so far so if you’ve got any cool retrospective plans, tips, tricks or anything else please add them.
Along with Matt Wynne I’ll be running the Retrospective Surgery session mentioned on the wiki at SPA2009 next week so I expect we’ll be getting some juicy new content imminently.
September 5th, 2009 at 8:35 am
Am just finishing up the book, some great techniques in there, some of which you used in your SPA Retrospectives session IIRC.
I’ve pointed a few people at the wiki.