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Use the prime directive as the guide

Use the prime directive as the guide

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

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Use the prime directive as the guide

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- Like many Agile practices, a good retrospective depends on self-organized team. The team needs to accept responsibility for their improvement. That's why Norm Kerth created a short retrospective mission that he called the prime directive. The prime directive should be taken very seriously. Don't think of it like the original Star Trek's prime directive. The team shouldn't discard this directive whenever it may cause problems. Instead, the prime directive is a pledge. It's a shared understanding about how to work together. Some facilitators even suggest reading out the directive at the beginning of each retro. It's a little strange to see a team do this. It looks like a pledge the state of Agile. If you get the team to do it, there is some evidence that this reinforces positive behavior. The prime directive states that regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job…

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