Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives

Using the lessons of this book, you will be able run fantastic Agile Retrospectives and improve your business getting excellent results.

What this book will teach you

Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives helps you and your teams to do retrospectives effectively and efficiently. It's a toolbox with many exercises for facilitating retrospectives, supported with the “what” and “why” of retrospectives, the business value and benefits that they bring, and advice for introducing and improving retrospectives.

If you are a Scrum master, agile coach, project manager, product manager or facilitator then this book helps you to discover and apply new ways to do Valuable Agile Retrospectives with your teams. With plenty of exercises you can develop your own personal Retrospectives Toolbox to become more proficient in doing retrospectives and get more out of them.

The 5 most important tips

What is an Agile Retrospective
What is the business Value of an Agile Retrospective
Pre-Requirements of Agile Retrospectives
How to design an Agile Retrospective
Several Practical Retrospectives Exercises

More than 10,000 people have already downloaded this pocket book and improved their Agile Retrospectives using what they learned in this book.

About the authors

Luis Goncalves & Ben Linders

Luis Gonçalves is an Agile Coach, Co-Author, Speaker and a Blogger

He has been working in the software industry since 2003, being an Agile practitioner since 2007.

He has a lot of experience in integrating sequential projects phases like localization into an Agile Framework and pioneering Agile adoption at different companies and different contexts.

He has a technical background yet my passion lies at the Management side where I am a Management 3.0 passionate.

You can follow his blog on:
http://lmsgoncalves.com/ or in twitter at @lgoncalves1979.
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Ben Linders is a Senior Consultant in Agile, Lean, Quality, and Process Improvement, based in The Netherlands. He is co-author of the book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives.

As an advisor, coach and trainer, he helps organizations by deploying effective software development and management practices. He focuses on continuous improvement, collaboration and communication, and professional development, to deliver business value to customers.

Ben is an active member of several networks on Agile, Lean and Quality, and a frequent speaker and writer. He shares his experience in a bilingual blog (Dutch and English) at www.benlinders.com. Follow him on Twitter at @BenLinders.

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Some words on the Book

Ben and Luis offer guidance to help you and your teams to make the most of your retrospectives. They have collected activities that will help you and your teams think together and spark discussion

Esther Derby
This is a book that I naturally recomend to every people that has to run retrospectives, but also to every project manager that wants to facilitate meetings to solve issues in software development projects.

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If I was to escape on Mars and bring just one single practice with me? No doubt: Agile Retrospective. Starting from there I could build a ´Brave New World´from scratch again. I would bring Ben & Luis book with me!

Jacopo Romei
If you are stuck for those activities, hit this little beauty - Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives by Luis Goncalves and Ben Linders. It´s a really quick read full of ideas to mix it up in your retrospectives.

Adrian Fittolani
Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives is a good addition to these other resources. Skim the book to get a sense of what´s there, and then use it as a reference as you plan your next retrospective. You may be doing well with the same set of activitis you have now. But as your team progresses, you may need more options. This book will help you keep your retrospectives fresh.

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