Agile Retrospectives

Making Good Teams Great

by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen

Available in July after July 25, 2006 from the Pragmatic Bookshelf or order now from Amazon.com.

Project retrospectives help teams examine what went right and what went wrong on a project. But traditionally, retrospectives (also known as "post-mortems") are only held at the end of the project--too late to help. You need agile retrospectives that are iterative and incremental. You need to accurately find and fix problems to help the team today.

Now Esther and Diana show you the tools, tricks and 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 and organization, how to run them effectively, how to make the needed changes and how to scale these techniques up. You'll learn how to deal with problems, and implement solutions effectively throughout the project--not just at the end.

This book will help you:

• Design and run effective retrospectives
• Learn how to find and fix problems


• Find and reinforce team strengths


• Address people issues as well as technological


• Use tools and recipes proven in the real world

One of the Top Ten Tech Books of 2006!