Remember the Future: Imagine the next iteration is perfect. Three Words: everybody sums up the last iteration in 3 words. There are countless formats of retrospectives, such as: Identify the actions to solve these issues and irritants. Discuss the issues and irritants – from the smallest (the coffee is bad) to the biggest (we need new fundings) – and take time to analyze them. Celebrate successes: a new client, a feature release, a past action identified during the last retrospective that led to the expected results, …. It should always include these three axes: Retrospectives usually last for ½ hour to 1 hour. Indeed, you don’t want to wait too long and risk your team members to forget about what happens during the sprint that could be improved.Īn Agile retrospective is considering “successful” if team members are confident that their functioning as a team will meliorate for the next sprint and the trend shows a continuous improvement over time. Ideally, the Agile retrospective takes place at the end of the sprint, right or soon after the sprint review (and before the next sprint planning). And if necessary, people who contributed to the current sprint from other departments. In this article, we will share the ideal structure for efficient sprint retrospectives and the outcomes you can get.Īgile Retrospective: Definition of a Successful RetrospectiveĪccording to the official definition from the Scrum Guide: “The Agile retrospective is the opportunity for an Agile team to examine itself and define a plan for improvement to be enacted during the next Sprint.” It gathers all the active team members, including the Scrum master and product owner. 
However, they require a great deal of preparation and some key success factors. Thus, their success is essential for the well-being (and functioning) of the team in the long run.
The main objective of an Agile retrospective is to identify potential improvements in the way the team works, based on the past weeks’ events. In an Agile team, work is punctuated by different team meetings and rituals, in particular: the sprint planning, standup daily meetings, the sprint review, and the retrospective.
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