This document provides an overview of how to plan and facilitate an agile retrospective meeting. It discusses setting up the context and goal, introducing a check-in for participants, focusing the discussion on improvements, gathering feedback through exercises like team radar and learning matrix, prioritizing actions, and closing the meeting with appreciation. The overall objective is continuous improvement through inspecting and adapting the team's processes.
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Agile retrospectives v100
1. “Life can only be understood backwards, but it
must be lived forwards”
Kierkegaard
16. • In one or two words, what is happening for you right
now?
• In a word or two, what are your hopes for the
retrospective?
Ask a question that
everyone can answer
with a word or short
phrase
• You may thank each person (be sure to thank every
person if you do). Refrain from offering evaluative
comments such as “good” or “wonderful”
Go around the room
listening to each
person’s answer
18. Draw attention to
the Focus On/Focus
Off poster
Form small groups,
with no more than
four people per
group
Ask each group to
discuss what their
two words mean
and what
What behaviors
they represent.
Each group reports
on their discussion
to the whole team.
Ask people whether
they are willing to
stay in the left
column
Source: Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
22. Introduce the
activity
Team member
draws a dot in the
graph.
Discuss about how
the factors affect
the work
Save the
completed flip
chart graph.
Run the activity
again two or three
iterations later
Source: Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
24. Generate a large number of ideas and filter them against a
defined set of criteria.
Discover underlying conditions that contribute to an issue
Help team members find what’s significant in their data.
28. One person asks the
other(s) why an event
or problem occurred.
In response to the
answer, the questioner
asks why that
happened.
Record the responses
that come out of the
fourth or fifth ‘Why?’