Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Derby, Esther / Larsen, Diana, PUBLISHER: Pragmong>atong>ic Bookshelf, See how to mine the experience of your software development team "continually" throughout the life of the project. The tools ong>andong> recipes in this book will help you uncover ong>andong> solve hidden (ong>andong> not-so-hidden) problems with your technology, your methodology, ong>andong> those difficult "people" issues on your team. Project retrospectives help teams examine whong>atong> went right ong>andong> whong>atong> went wrong on a project. But traditionally, retrospectives (also known as "post-mortems") are ong>onlyong> helpful ong>atong> the end of the project--too long>atong>e to help. You need agile retrospectives thong>atong> are iterong>atong>ive ong>andong> incremental. You need to accurong>atong>ely find ong>andong> fix problems to help the team today. Now, Derby ong>andong> Larsen show you the tools, tricks, ong>andong> tips you need to fix the problems you face on a software development project on an on-going basis. You'll see how to architect retrospectives in general, how to design them specifically for your team ong>andong> organizong>atong>ion, how to run them effectively, how to make the needed changes, ong>andong> how to scale these techniques up. You'll learn how to deal with problems, ong>andong> implement solutions effectively throughout the project--not just ong>atong> the end. With regular tune-ups, your team will hum like a precise, world-class orchestra.