Retrospectives

San Francisco Agile User Group hosted an event on March 23rd with Chris Sims and Steve Bockman who talked about Retrospectives.


Here's the video (40:16) of this event:


And here are some photos:

http://www.sfagile.org/photos/881982/

Enjoy!

For those that are new to Retrospectives:

A Retrospective is a special meeting that is held after a development team completes an increment of work, and is designed to help team members find ways to improve both the technical and the "teamwork" aspects of their work process. The Retrospective is a fundamental and essential meeting in Agile development, because it is the mechanism whereby inspection and adaptation take place.
Many people are probably familiar with the older "post-mortem" meeting, which was typically used to discover what went wrong in a development effort after it was too late to do anything about it. Retrospectives, by contrast, are conducted on a regular basis throughout a development effort, so that teams can make timely corrections when something goes wrong.
Retrospectives are the Agile team’s most powerful tool for facilitating continuous improvement. We’ve all encountered teams that make the same mistakes and suffer the same pain over and over again. The good news is that it’s possible for just about any team to break this cycle by investing as little as an hour a week in learning to use retrospectives to systematically and incrementally improve performance. In this workshop, you will learn how to use Retrospectives to put your team on a path of continuous improvement.