Book review: 50 quick ideas to improve your retrospectives
December 11, 2015
I have a confession to make:
I think retrospectives are boring
There. It’s out there. I’ve attended many and facilitated even more. I don’t like it. But before you all start to throw wasted fruit and vegetables my way, let me follow that statement up with a contradiction:
I think that retrospecting is the fundament of agile, and what's needed to improve
If agile brought anything new to the IT table it was the idea that we repeatedly, often or even continuously look back on our work, our tools, our output or our environment and try to improve it. Admittedly that was not invented by agile, but that’s how most of us got in contact with it. And it’s the one basic idea that can be found in all agile framework. Because it’s essential to improve.
Anyway - those two statements causes a problem for me, as you probably can...