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Agile Retrospectives Making Good Teams Great

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ISBN-10: 0977616649

ISBN-13: 9780977616640

Edition: 2006

Authors: Esther Derby, Diana Larsen, Ken Schwaber

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Tuning Up Teams CoverTuning Up TeamsRetrospective Toolkit and RecipesEsther Derby and Diana LarsenPages: 200ISBN: 0-9776166-4-9Date: July 2006Resources:Post link to: del.icio.usPurchaseThis title will be available on or about:June 15, 2006.ExcerptsComing soonTuning Up Teams: Retrospective Toolkit and RecipesSee how to mine the experience of your software development team continually throughout the life of the project. The tools and recipes in this book will help you uncover and solve hidden (and not-so-hidden) problems with your technology, your methodology, and those difficult "people issues" on your team.About This BookProject retrospectives help teams examine what went right and what…    
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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Pragmatic Programmers, LLC, The
Publication date: 8/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 186
Size: 7.56" wide x 9.45" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

A 30-year veteran of the software development industry, Ken Schwaber is a leader of the agile process revolution and one of the developers of the Scrum process. A signatory of the Agile Manifesto in 2001, he subsequently founded the Agile Alliance and the Scrum Alliance. Ken authored Agile Project Management with Scrum and coauthored Agile Software Development with Scrum and has helped train more than 47,000 certified ScrumMasters.

Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Helping Your Team Inspect and Adapt
Set the Stage
Gather Data
Generate Insights
Decide What to Do
Close the Retrospective
A Retrospective Custom-Fit to Your Team
Learning About the History and Environment
Shaping the Goal for the Retrospective
Determining Duration
Structuring a Retrospective
Selecting Activities
Leading Retrospectives
Managing Activities
Managing Group Dynamics
Managing Time
Managing You
Taking Your Skills to the Next Level
Activities to Set the Stage
Check-In
Focus On/Focus Off
ESVP
Working Agreements
Activities to Gather Data
Timeline
Triple Nickels
Color Code Dots
Mad Sad Glad
Locate Strengths
Satisfaction Histogram
Team Radar
Like to Like
Activities to Generate Insights
Brainstorming/Filtering
Force Field Analysis
Five Whys
Fishbone
Patterns and Shifts
Prioritize with Dots
Report Out with Synthesis
Identify Themes
Learning Matrix
Activities to Decide What to Do
Retrospective Planning Game
SMART Goals
Circle of Questions
Short Subjects
Activities to Close the Retrospective
+/Delta
Appreciations
Temperature Reading
Helped, Hindered, Hypothesis
Return on Time Invested (ROTI)
Releases and Project Retrospectives
Preparing for Release and Project Retrospectives
Including Cross-Organizational Perspectives
Leading Release and Project Retrospectives
A Retrospective at Every Ending
Make It So
Provide Support
Share Responsibility for Making Changes
Supporting Larger Changes
Facilitation Supplies
Debriefing Activities
Activities Quick Reference Matrix
Resources for Learning Facilitation Skills
Bibliography