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Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives

A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises

About the Book

Paperback Edition available on AmazonLulu, and Barnes & Noble.

We present you: A new agile book with many exercises for facilitating retrospectives, supported with the “what” and “why” of retrospectives, the business value and benefits that they bring, and advice for introducing and improving retrospectives.

This is a book for agile coaches, scrum masters, project managers, product managers and facilitators who already have some experience with retrospectives. 

With this book we are offering a half year of our work to the community to help teams all over the world to get better in doing retrospectives.

Want to stay informed about retrospectives and future versions of our book?

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This book is being translated into many languages, they are all available on Leanpub.

Ben Linders & Luis Gonçalves

About the authors

We are both active bloggers at www.benlinders.com and https://luis-goncalves.com. On our blogs we share our experiences on several agile and lean topics including retrospectives.

During the years we have conducted many different kinds of retrospectives. We think that practicing different exercises helps to develop your own personal toolbox with retrospective exercises and get more value out of them. If you want to get some extra ideas you can access to Agile Retrospectives Ideas.

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Ben Linders
Ben Linders

Ben Linders is an Independent Consultant in Agile, Lean, Quality, and Continuous Improvement. Author of Getting Value out of Agile RetrospectivesWaardevolle Agile RetrospectivesWhat Drives QualityProblem? What Problem?, and Continuous Improvement. Creator of many Agile Coaching Tools, for example, the Agile Self-assessment Game.

As an adviser, coach, and trainer he helps organizations with deploying effective software development and management practices. He focuses on continuous improvement, collaboration and communication, and professional development, to deliver business value to customers.

Ben is a well-known speaker and author; he’s much respected for sharing his experiences and helping others share theirs. His books and games have been translated into more than 12 languages and are used by professionals in teams and organizations all around the world.

Ben is an active member of networks on Agile, Lean, and Quality, and a well-known speaker and author. He shares his experiences in a bilingual blog (Dutch and English), as an editor for Culture and Methods at InfoQ, and as an expert in communities like ComputableQuoraDZone, and TechTarget. Follow him on twitter: @BenLinders.

In need of advice, consultancy, training? Have a question? Contact me!  info@benlinders.com

Luis Gonçalves
Luis Gonçalves

Luis Gonçalves is an Entrepreneur, Author, International Keynote Speaker and he is also the Managing Director of evolution4all.com

As a Management Consultant he works with Senior Executives to implement his ADAPT Methodology so they can greatly increase the effectiveness and efficiency of their organisations; enabling them to become recognised and highly rewarded Leaders.

Previously much of his career has been spent assisting various organisations to become more Agile and better at what they do. For more information on this topic, you can find different ideas on the list Agile Retrospectives Ideas or, for distributed teams, by clicking on Tools for Distributed Agile Retrospectives. General topics under: Agile RetrospectiveScrum, and Scrum Master.

At this moment Luis and his consultancy have now moved beyond Agile and spend all his time implementing his ‘Organisational Mastery’ product in organisations where OKRs are a fundamental piece of his approach.

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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).

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Reader Testimonials

Gojko Adzic
Gojko Adzic

Strategic software delivery consultant

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.

Lisa Crispin
Lisa Crispin

Agile testing coach and practitioner

Try the exercises in this book whether your team is new to retrospectives, new to agile in general, or quite experienced with agile and retros but in need of a refreshing change.

Franco Martinig
Franco Martinig

Editor of Software Development Books and Methods & Tools

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.

Mary Beijleveld
Mary Beijleveld

Agile Coach and trainer at VX Company

Handig, alles bij elkaar in een boekje. Heb ‘m meteen gedownload. Ben, bedankt!

Jason Little
Jason Little

Author of Lean Change Management

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.

Adrian Fittolani
Adrian Fittolani

Program Director (Market) at Envato, blogs at Scrumage.com

(...) 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.

Mirella de Vries
Mirella de Vries

Product Owner / Informatieanalist at IT&Care BV

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!

Steve Berczuk
Steve Berczuk

Principal Engineer and ScrumMaster at Fitbit and Editor at Techwell

Skim the book to get a sense of what’s there, and then use it as a reference as you plan your next retrospective. (...) This book will help you keep your retrospectives fresh.

Pierre Neis
Pierre Neis

Senior Lean Agile Coach

This is an interesting book to understand and perform Retrospectives for Agile Teams. Highly recommended for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches.

Fabian Schiller
Fabian Schiller

Agile & Scrum Coach

This book is great! Every ScrumMaster and Agile Coach should have it on his bookshelf. You can get many practicable ideas for conducting retrospectives from this book. And it is really easily accessible.

Jesse Houwing
Jesse Houwing

Lead Consultant (ALM, Agile)

Great hands-on book with multiple techniques, tools, aims and all in a very hands-on manner.

Henny Portman
Henny Portman

PMO consultant at NN Group

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.

Konstantinos Kareklas
Konstantinos Kareklas

Scrum Master - Cyprus Agile and Innovation community

As a Scrum Master, I have found this book a very useful tool for my retrospectives and not only. It helped me view things from a different perspective and many of the exercises helped me in a lot of situations. I keep it saved on my cell phone and I advise it often and I strongly recommend it for every Scrum related person, especially Scrum Masters.

Table of Contents

  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • What Is an Agile Retrospective?
  • Why Do We Do Retrospectives?
  • Business Value of Agile Retrospectives
  • Pre-Requirements for Retrospectives
  • Designing a Retrospective
  • Retrospective Exercises
    • Asking Questions
    • Starfish
    • Sailboat
    • One-Word Retrospective
    • Car Brand
    • Happiness Index
    • Five Times Why
    • Constellation
    • Team Assessment Survey
    • Strengths-Based Retrospective
    • High Performance Tree
    • Value Stream Mapping
    • Retrospective of Retrospectives
  • Benefits of Retrospectives
  • Adopting Agile Retrospectives
  • A Retrospectives Book in Your Language
  • Develop Your Agile Retrospective Facilitation Skills
  • Valuable Agile Retrospectives
  • Bibliography

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