“Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives: A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises”

I co-wrote this book with Ben Linders. This is a pocket book that contains many exercises that you can use to do retrospectives, supported with the “what” and “why” of retrospectives, the business value and benefits that they can bring you, and advice for introducing and improving retrospectives.

Agile retrospectives are a great way to continuously improve your way of working. Getting actions out of a retrospective that are doable, and getting them done helps teams to learn and improve. We hope that this book helps you and your teams to do retrospectives effectively and efficiently to reflect upon your ways of working, and continuously improve them!

The book can be found here.

“Future Content”

We keep ourselves collecting feedback for a future release of this book. Below you can find some of the topics that are not covered in the initial book but will be most probably touched in a future version. Please feel free to contact me and suggest your own ideas.

Possible topics to be added to the future release:

• Retrospective Smells
• Cure for retrospective smells
• More retrospective exercises
• Do retrospectives more often
• Chose one topic at a time
• Acceptance criteria for Retrospectives
• Which Retrospective Exercise?
• Why losing time with root causes

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