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The book “Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives – A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises” written by Luis Gonçalves and Ben Linders contains many exercises that you can use to facilitate retrospectives, supported with the “why”, “what” and “how” of retrospectives, the business value and benefits that they can bring you, and advice for introducing and improving retrospectives.

20.000++ copies sold. Available in paperback and as ebook in 14 languages. Buy it in my webshop, on Amazon, or download the Agile Retrospectives Bundle on Leanpub.

My book is included in many bundles, like Great Agile Retrospective BooksAgile Practices and Tips, and Books by Ben Linders. Get your copy of all of these books with a fabulous bundle discount on Leanpub! Together these books will make your Agile retrospectives rock!

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The book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives was first released on Leanpub, as were all translated editions. All books are listed on the Leanpub Ben Linders’s Author page.

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The easiest way to obtain the ebook Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives or a translated edition is to download it from my webshop, Leanpub, Amazon.com, or InfoQ. It’s distributed worldwide through many on-line bookstores.

The book is also available in paperback format on Amazon and other on-line bookstores.

Your local “brick and mortar” bookstore can probably order the English edition for you if you give them the ISBN number:  978-1304789624.

All the translated editions are available as eBooks in my webshop.

More information can be found in the book leaflet.

Why this book on Agile Retrospectives

An agile retrospective, or sprint retrospective as Scrum calls it, is a practice used by self-organizing teams to reflect on their way of working, and to continuously become better in what they do.

With plenty of exercises for your retrospective toolbox, this book will help you to become more proficient in doing retrospectives, and to get more value out of them.

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Multiple copies of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives

More than 25.000 copies have been sold of our successful book. Teams all over the world are using it to make their retrospectives more valuable.

Do you want multiple copies of this ebook, e.g for every member of your team, the whole department, or company? Or to use it at school or at your university for students to learn about doing valuable retrospectives. You can now get multiple copies by buying an ebook package on Leanpub (scroll down to “Packages”).

The following packages are available:

Team / Small Company License: Copies for the whole team, everybody in your department, or (small companies) for all employees. Up to 10 readers.

Enterprise License: Increase the agility of your enterprise by giving employees this practical book full of valuable exercise. Up to 100 readers (for more copies, contact us).

Education: For schools and universities who want to use this book in their curriculum. Educational, non commercial usage only.

Through these packages, I am offering multiple copies of our book for a significantly discounted price :-).

Are you a trainer or training/consultancy company? Please contact me directly for a license agreement to use our book in your training classes and/or offer the book to course attendants (this license is sold directly via us and not via Leanpub).

What readers say about this book

The book has gotten fantastic reviews on GoodReadsAmazonLuluScrumExpert, Agile Consortium, SoftwareDevelopmentBooks, Scrumage, Techwell, and LibraryThing.

We’ve been interviewed by Thomas Cagley in SPaMCAST 282 – Ben Linders and Luis Gonçalves on Retrospectives and by Lisette Sutherland and Elinor Slomba for Collaboration Superpowers.

From the foreword written by Esther Derby:Ben and Luis offer guidance to help you and your teams make the most of your retrospectives. They have collected activities that will help you and your teams think together and spark discussion.
Esther Derby:  Co-author of Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great

This nice little book, which can be read in less than two hours from cover to cover, is packed with great facilitation ideas for retrospectives. People tasked with facilitating team retrospectives, such as agile coaches or Scrum masters, will benefit the most from the book as it contains several great ideas for organising and troubleshooting retrospectives. I particularly like that each facilitation idea comes with enough context so that readers can know when to use and when not to use which technique.
Gojko Adzic on Amazon

This is a book that I naturally recommend 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.
Franco Martineg on Sofware Development Books

I just finished this book, it’s a must-have reference guide for any facilitator, not just Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches. What sets this book apart is that each section has a “when to use this technique” and detailed instructions for how to do it. It’s an easy read and a perfect pocket companion.
Jason Little on Amazon

a must read for scrum masters, agile coaches and project managers to assure that their retrospectives get the attention they need to get the most out of them as well as expanding their toolbox.
Henny Portman in Review: Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives

Handig, alles bij elkaar in een boekje. Heb ‘m meteen gedownload. Ben, bedankt!
Mary Beijleveld – Business Consultant via Email

Dovessi andare su Marte e portarmi solo una pratica agile? Nessun dubbio: la Retrospettiva. Da quella potrei ricostruire tutto un “mondo nuovo”! Il libro di Ben e Luis lo porterei con me!
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: Writer of the foreword for the Italian Edition

I was looking for a practical guide with a short introduction on restrospectives and lots of examples which I could use during our retrospectives. I found it all in this book!
Mirella de Vries on Amazon

@BenLinders: Getting Value Out of #Agile Retros – a Toolbox ” – Book looks great. I’ll check it out & share w/my team
Stephen Barr on Twitter

(…) if you’re stuck for those activities, hit this little beauty – Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives by Luis Gonçalves and Ben Linders. It’s a really quick read full of ideas to mix it up in your retrospectives.
Adrian Fittolani on Scrumage

Don’t miss this great book: Getting Value out of #Agile#Retrospectives by @BenLinders
Bruno Sbille on Twitter

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 activities you have now. But as your team progresses, you may need more options. This book will help you keep your retrospectives fresh.
Steve Berczuk on TechWell

Getting Value Out of Agile Retrospectives by Ben Linders and Luis Gonçalves (forward by Esther Derby) includes a number of agile retrospective exercise formats as well as a section on the business value of agile retrospectives, steps for pre-work and more. A great place to get a well rounded overview of retros and a number of exercise ideas.
Agile Retrospective Resources by Jake Calabrese

Goodreads reviews for Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives

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Detailed information about the book

Authors: Luis Gonçalves & Ben Linders
Size: 73 pages
Dimensions: 6 x 0.2 x 9 inches
Weight: 159 gram
Published by C4Media (paperback) and Ben Linders Publishing (ebook)
Published: June 4, 2014
ISBN 10: 1304789624 (English Edition, paperback)
ISBN 13: 978-1304789624 (English Edition, paperback)
ISBN 10: 9492119070 (English Edition, ebook)
ISBN 13: 978-9492119070 (English Edition, ebook)
Translated to NederlandsEspañolFrancais,JapaneseItalianoChineseRussian, Polish, Vietnamese Greek.

About the authors

Luis Gonçalves and I are both active bloggers at www.benlinders.com and lmsgoncalves.com. On our blogs, we share our experiences on several agile and lean topics including retrospectives.

Blogging is one way in which we share our knowledge, and it’s a rewarding one. We like the comments we receive on our blogs when people share their own experiences, and we love hearing from people who have tried the things that we write about.

Many readers have told us that they value our blog posts. We started thinking about how we could make things easier for them, by providing a small book on a specific topic – a book that they can carry with them that has hands-on information that they can use in their daily work to get business value out of agile retrospectives. These thoughts led us to produce this book about agile retrospectives.

We are aiming this book at agile coaches, scrum masters, project managers, product managers and facilitators who have at least some experience with doing retrospectives. They know about the purpose of retrospective, how they fit into agile and how to arrange and perform them.

During the years we have conducted many different kinds of retrospectives. We think that it helps when you develop your own personal toolbox with retrospective exercises.

Please feel free to share the book with your colleagues and friend. If you like to promote our book on social media, please use the hashtag #RetroValue.

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