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Agile retrospectives: What and why?

Agile retrospectives: What and why?

From the course: Agile at Work: Getting Better with Agile Retrospectives

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Agile retrospectives: What and why?

- Retrospectives have been around since the beginning. After running the Agile manifesto, the Alliance listed out several core principals. These principals clarified the shorter Agile values. One of the principals says that at regular intervals, the team should reflect on how to become more effective. Then adjust their behavior. So the team should reflect, tune, and adjust. In many ways, the retrospective is about the team being Agile with their own improvement. They use the same ideas to turn their efforts inward to reflect on how they can be a better team. Typically, the team will meet for two hours on the last day of every sprint. Then they'll reflect on things that went well and what could be improved. Agile retrospectives are a very lively area. Norm Kerth first used the term around the same time that Agile started. Since then, there have been numerous books written on how to run a good retrospective. Still, many…

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