If you want your retrospectives to be valuable you have to make retrospective actions stick. Effective retrospectives have lasting impact in organizations, they lead to changed behavior that sticks without any reinforcement. Having a diverse and multidisciplinary team helps to make retrospective actions stick.
Are you looking for interesting and useful books about Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Continuous Improvement? Over the years I've read many books on these topics. A collection of great books is available on my Recommended Books page.
A new bundle has been released on Leanpub: Retrospectivas ágiles. It contains three great books on Agile Retrospectives in Spanish which can now be bought with a fabulous discount.
The first version of the Greek edition of our Agile Retrospectives book, Αποκομίζοντας αξία από τα Agile Retrospectives, has been released on Leanpub. This version contains eleven chapters and includes two retrospective exercises. It's the official translation of our successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives.
Non-verbal exercises can be used in agile retrospectives to "hear" from introverts and involve people who find it difficult to speak up in groups.
Agile retrospectives can be done in many different way, the Many Faces of Jack Sparrow is one example how to do them. I love it when people design new exercises that help people to reflect and learn, specially those exercises that help to explore and discuss feelings in teams. Here's a guest blog post on BenLinders.com from Corey Scholefield and Selina McGinnis in which they share their experiences from doing a retrospective exercise called Many Faces of Jack Sparrow.
The Polish and Russian editions of my successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives are now available in my webshop. With these additions the webshop now provides nine languages editions of my book with retrospective exercises.
A good facilitator support teams in doing analysis, reflection and deciding on the actions. An independent facilitator doesn't not have an own agenda of improvements, but is focused on helping teams decide on those actions that are best for the team.
I was contacted by Srijan to contribute my expertise to an round up post on distributed agile best practices. As I'm always looking for ways to share my experience I agreed. Little did I know at the time who else they asked to contribute. Here's how I ended up.
Here's another guest blog post on BenLinders.com which explores good practices for implementing Kanban, written by Nishanth Appaiah Mittu. Enjoy!
A question I often get during my talks and workshops is if you need to do agile retrospectives if the team feels that everything is going well. Short answer is yes, improving yourself never stops. Let's explore how you can do valuable agile retrospectives with teams where everything goes well.
The Vietnamese edition Khai thác giá trị Agile Retrospective has been released on Leanpub. With this release there are now 9 translated editions of the successful book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives available.