Agile retrospectives
by Esther Derby, Diana Larsen, Ken Schwaber · first published 2012
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…dumbfounding mess in Mississippi, which we know about because of one stubbornly honest engineer: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/05/science/kemper-coal-missis... [2] A good book is Larsen and Derby's Agile Retrospectives: https://www.amazon.com/Agile-Retrospectives-Making-Teams-Gre... [3] Also handy is the Retromat: http://plans-for-retrospectives.com/
on “In a nutshell, why do a lot of developers dislike Agile?” ↗Six hours is longer than I would use for a regular retrospective, but 30 min is very short. The format you’ve described is fairly shallow. Check and Derby and Larsen’s Agile Retrospectives for ideas about what you might be missing.
on “Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion” ↗…Inequality and Threatens Democracy. Badass: Making Users Awesome. Social Engineering in IT Security: Tools, Tactics, and Techniques. How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody. Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. The Global War for Internet Governance. Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking. Hate Crimes in Cyberspace. High…
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite non-fiction books of all time?” ↗…hierarchies [who] internally decide who does what, when, and how?" You aren't doing Scrum right. (Scrum Guide) Does your retrospective not include "Decide what to do?" You aren't doing retrospectives right. (Agile Retrospectives book.) In fairness hardly anybody does these things right, so it's tempting to lob No True Scotsman criticisms. But that's just as fallacious. A more accurate criticism might be to say that Agile & co.…
on “Agile and the long crisis of software” ↗…asking questions, state your feelings with 1 word, 5 times why (Root Causes) or asking why, solution focused/strengths and retrospective of retrospectives. @BenLinders Co-author Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives
on “How to perform a good agile retrospective” ↗…focus has helped the team actually improve things with our process. We've been using http://plans-for-retrospectives.com/ for ideas of the activities. A number of our Agile Coaches have recommended the "Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great" book (but I haven't read it myself).
on “Ask HN: How to apply agile to a team of 5-7 without annoying the talented?” ↗…thread have gotten two things wrong: 1) They don't understand Agile, Scrum, or retrospectives, each of which have authoritative definitions (which can be found at agilemanifesto.org, scrum.org, and in the Agile Retrospectives book).¹ 2) Furthermore, they don't understand the "No True Scotsman" fallacy. Correcting a misunderstanding is not "No True Scotsman." If somebody called a car a "horse," and you said, "that's not a…
on “Agile and the long crisis of software” ↗