Agile Retrospectives

Esther Derby has spent the last four decades leading, observing, and living through organizational change. Esther began her career as a programmer, but quickly learned that, while her job description mentioned computers, her true work involved altering the way people worked and supporting them along the process. Esther is the co-author of Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management (2005), a handbook for people transitioning from technical to management employment, and Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great (2006), a process for teams to inspect, adapt, and improve how they work.

Diana Larsen, a founding member and director of the Agile Fluency Project, provides methods for teams to plan a course, coordinate with management, and secure organizational support for continuous learning and growth. She serves as a volunteer leader with the Agile Alliance, Organization Design Forum, Agile Open Northwest, and the Agile Open Initiative.

Learn how to continuously mine the experience of your software development team throughout the project's life cycle. The techniques and recipes in this book will assist you in identifying and resolving hidden (and not-so-hidden) difficulties with your technology, methodology, and those challenging "people" issues on your team.

Project retrospectives assist teams in analyzing what went good and wrong on a project. However, retrospectives (also known as "post-mortems") are generally only useful after the end of a project, when it is too late to help. Agile retrospectives that are iterative and incremental are required. To assist the team today, you must accurately identify and resolve difficulties.

Now, Derby and Larsen show you the tools, methods, and tips you need to fix difficulties that arise on a regular basis while working on a software development project in Agile Retrospectives- one of the best books on Agile project management. You'll learn how to architect retrospectives in general, build them particularly for your team and organization, run them effectively, make the necessary modifications, and scale these strategies up. You'll learn how to deal with challenges and effectively implement solutions throughout the project, not just at the end. Your staff will hum like a precise, world-class symphony with regular tune-ups.

Author: Esther Derby and Diana Larsen

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Agile-Retrospectives-Making-Teams-Great/dp/0977616649/

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