What readers are saying about Agile Retrospectives

Esther Derby and Diana Larsen have written the definitive book on agile retrospectives. You don’t have to be an agile team to take advantage of their book; you only have to want to improve. Follow their advice and your teams will be more successful.

Johanna Rothman
Author, speaker and consultant, Rothman Consulting Group, Inc.

Two of the software industry’s leading facilitators have taken their many years of retrospective experience and distilled them into an approachable reference for agile team leaders. For all of the self-made facilitators out there who have been winging it, this book will provide a solid foundation to improve the effectiveness of your iteration, release, and project retrospectives.

Dave Hoover
Lead Consultant, Agile Practices, Obtiva Corp.

This book is a wonderful compendium of ways to keep retrospectives fresh and teams learning.

Mike Cohn
Author of Agile Estimating and Planning

This book is a must-read for all team leads, facilitators and everyone interested in driving improvements in the ways teams reflect, learn and function.

Sheila O’Connor, Ph.D.
Six Sigma Software Black Belt, LSI Logic, Engenio Storage Group

Whatever you call it: retrospective, post-mortem, post-partum, post-project review. Your work can be better by stopping at regular intervals and asking, “What worked well that we don’t want to forget? What should be ...

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