About the book
We publishing the first edition of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives as an eBook in December 2013. Since then much has happened. Many people downloaded the book and have been using it to do valuable retrospectives with their teams. In 5 months we reached 1000 readers on Leanpub and many more on InfoQ.
The second edition published in June 2014 is the first version that is also published in print via Amazon, Lulu and Barnes & Noble. The handy pocket format is easy to carry whenever you are doing retrospectives or preparing them.
Having a foreword by Esther Derby makes us feel very honored. With us, many have learned the why and how of retrospectives from the book Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great that Esther wrote together with Diana Larsen.
We thank the InfoQ staff for all their support while preparing our book for print. Since the content is the same you can use the print and eBook editions next to each other. You can download the full eBook at InfoQ and Leanpub.
The book has gotten fantastic reviews on GoodReads, Amazon, Lulu, ScrumExpert, Agile Consortium, SoftwareDevelopmentBooks, Scrumage and Techwell. The book is also available for review on Shelfari and LibraryThing.
We received many emails, tweets, LinkedIn comments and other feedback from our readers. It feels really good when people like your book and tell you what they got out of it. Thanks!
We started getting requests for editions of our book in other languages. To support that, volunteer teams in different countries are translating our book into many languages. The retrospective books in local languages are distributed via Leanpub:
- Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives
- Obteniendo valor de las Retrospectivas ágiles
- Tirer profit des rétrospectives agiles
- アジャイルふりかえりから価値を生み出す - 日本語版
- Ottieni il meglio dalle tue Retrospettive Agili
- 从敏捷回顾中收获价值
A big thanks to all the translators, reviewers, and editors: you are helping us to make our dream to help teams all around the world to do valuable retrospectives come true!
When we started this, we didn’t expect it to become so big in such a short time. Of course, this makes us very happy. We also think it confirms that retrospectives are important in agile. Every day, we hear about agile teams around the world that are regularly doing retrospectives. Our mission is to help as many teams as possible to get more value out of agile retrospectives.