November 2012 archive

Agile Retrospective and Lessons Learned

When facilitating an agile retrospective as a scrum master or a project lessons learned session with a team, I like to use the following questions to cause the teamcartoons,communicating,communications,conversations,people,persons,Screen Beans®,string cans to reflect and generate discussion. The categories are those that I like to the team to consider. By putting the two together you can ask for a multitude of ideas and thoughts. If the team gets stuck during a retrospective, I will simply ask some questions to open up the lines of communication.

For instance:

What went well related to our planning?
What went well related to our resource management?
What did we learn about testing?
What still puzzles us about our testing?

Questions

  1. What went well?
  2. What did we learn?
  3. What did we struggle with?
  4. What should we do differently?
  5. What still puzzles us?

Categories

  • Planning
  • Resources
  • Project Management/Scheduling
  • Development, Design, Specifications
  • Testing
  • Communication
  • Team, Organization
  • Product
  • Management (Group and Program Managers)
  • Tools and Practices
  • General

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