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Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great!

Project retrospectives help teams examine what went right and what went wrong on a project. But traditionally, retrospectives (also known as “post-mortems”) are only held at the end of the project—too late to help. You need agile retrospectives that are iterative and incremental. You need to accurately find and fix problems to help the team today.

Now Esther Derby and Diana Larsen show you the tools, tricks, and tips you need to fix the problems you face on a software development project on an ongoing basis. You’ll see how to architect retrospectives in general, how to design them specifically for your team and organization, how to run them effectively, how to make the needed changes, and how to scale these techniques up. You’ll learn how to deal with problems, and implement solutions effectively throughout the project—not just at the end.

THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU:

  • Design and run effective retrospectives
  • Learn how to find and fix problems
  • Find and reinforce team strengths
  • Address people issues as well as technological
  • Use tools and recipes are proven in the real world
  • With regular tune-ups, your team will hum like a precise, world-class orchestra.
About the Author(s)
Esther Derby

I’m an expert in organizational dynamics and a leading thinker in bringing agility to organizations, management, and teams. I started my career as a programmer, and over the years I’ve worn many hats, including business owner, internal consultant, and manager. From all these perspectives, one thing became clear: our level of the individual, team, and company success was deeply impacted by our work environment and organizational dynamics. As a result, I have spent the last twenty-five years helping companies evolve their environment, culture, and human dynamics for optimum success.

Diana Larsen

A visionary pragmatist and co-founder of the Agile Fluency Project, Diana Larsen co-authored, “The Agile Fluency Model: A Brief Guide to Success with Agile.” She is the author of “Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great”, “Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams”, and “Five Rules for Accelerated Learning”. For more than 20 years she has worked with leaders to design work systems, improve project performance, and support leadership and enterprise agility. An active speaker and contributor to her professional community, Diana has contributed in leadership roles to the Agile Alliance, the Organization Design Forum, and the Agile Open Initiative.

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