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Agile retrospectives help you get to the root of your real problems, so you can solve them quickly and effectively. They’re the cornerstone of a successful continuous improvement process, and one of your best tools for triggering positive cultural change.

In Improving Agile Retrospectives, leading agile coach/trainer Marc Loeffler combines practical guidance, proven practices, and innovative approaches for maximizing the value of retrospectives for your team―and your entire organization. You can apply his powerful techniques in any project, agile or otherwise. These techniques offer exceptional value wherever continuous improvement is needed: from “lessons-learned” workshops in traditional project management to enterprise-wide change management.

Loeffler’s detailed, results-focused examples help you recognize and overcome common pitfalls, adapt retrospectives to your unique needs, and consistently achieve tangible results. Throughout, he integrates breakthrough concepts, such as using experimentation and learning from system thinking. He presents small ideas that make a big difference―because they’re deeply grounded in real experience.

• Learn from failures and successes, and make good things even better
• Master facilitation techniques that help you achieve your goals (and have fun doing it)
• Prepare your retrospective so it runs smoothly
• Practice techniques for generating actionable insights
• Keep your retrospectives fresh and interesting
• Perform retrospectives that address the entire system, not just your team
• Focus on your “better future” with solution-focused retrospectives
• Learn how to avoid typical pitfalls when facilitating retrospectives
• Lead retrospectives across multiple distributed teams
• Use retrospectives to support large-scale change

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Marc Loeffler is a keynote speaker, author, and agile coach. Before encountering agile methods and principles in 2006, he was working as a traditional project manager for companies like Volkswagen AG and Siemens AG. His passion is to help teams implement agile frameworks like Scrum and XP and to transform our world of work. Marc has a passion for helping teams that are struggling with agile transitions and overcoming dysfunctional behavior. He loves to generate new insights by approaching common problems from the other side and trying to wreak havoc on the process deliberately.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (January 2, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0134678346
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0134678344
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 6 x 8.9 inches

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Solid book of ideas - a bit verbose but lots of good examples

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 31, 2018

I am not a Scrum Master but as a programmer I attend a lot of stand ups and end of sprint retrospectives. Never hurts to be able to toss in some ideas to make these more pleasant.

The writing style of the book makes it a pretty easy read. It focuses on the retrospective side of things with many examples of various games / techniques to use to keep them interesting so you are not following one boring pattern at the end of every sprint. It also covers why it is a good idea to have a retrospective. Many places I have worked skim over this or don’t have them at all. I call them postmortems but I guess that is a more morbid sounding phrase.

I do think the book is a bit verbose hammering home the ideas. I ended up skimming through the book and probably missed some content as I got bored with the restatement of many topics. I also found the various retrospective examples could have been covered with a few simple paragraphs instead of full chapters. I kind of felt like I was reading the same stuff over and over with a just a few words changed. I like the idea of lots of examples to keep the meetings fresh but I feel the presentation could have been compacted.

It is a book of solid ideas and it will help improve the your meetings. There is a lot to learn in here. Probably more useful to a Scrum Master vs. a developer so passing it up the line might be the best idea.

I got this as an e-book in PDF format. I always find it odd when it is a direct copy of the physical paper book. I have to skip pages that say “This page intentionally left blank” which just seems senseless. I hope the publisher updates this processing in the near future.

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I feel like it's too long for the amount of helpful information ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 25, 2018

I feel like it's too long for the amount of helpful information I got out of it. Like another reviewer, I'm a developer so maybe it would better help another person in a different position. There are some good ideas for different types of activities, but I felt like the rest of what was presented regarding retrospectives has more to do with general goal-setting, reporting, and accountability.

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Gunther Verheyen

A good overview of the why and what of retrospectives, and many how's.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 27, 2019

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I am not a big fan of games or other so-called 'playful' approaches to a Sprint Retrospective in Scrum. Nothing beats some great and serious conversation.
However, I do acknowledge that such serious conversations don't always start easily. And that is why I really liked "Improving Agile Retrospectives" from Marc Loeffler.
Marc introduces quite some techniques to facilitate a serious conversation during a Sprint Retrospective. Fyi. I am most fond of the "Metaphor" variants. But Marc's book also inspired me to create a Scrum Fishbone.
Why I most recommend reading Marc's book is the broad background information that he added, explaining the general why, what and how of retrospectives.

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James E Bennett

Insightful guide to creating effective team retrospectives.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 3, 2019

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I purchased this book right after it came out and was not disappointed. I have been working with Agile teams for many years, and one area I find they consistently struggle in is with retrospectives. Although I thought I knew everything I could know about motivating teams around their introspection, I thought I would check this book out on the recommendation of a peer. It is an enlightening and helpful resource, with some really interesting approaches to bring forward to your tea; whether you are using Scrum, Kanban, or any other Agile practice. I would even recommend it for non-Agile teams, as practicing regular retrospectives is such a powerful tool for team self-development.

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