Retrospectives

Atlassian, Editorial Team, Atlassian

This article explains what is a retrospective meeting, why you want to have them, and how to run one. The how-to section covers prep work and 4 steps during the meeting, including tips, anti-patterns to avoid, and alternate approaches.

Kuba Niechciał, Engineering Manager, Intercom

While the standard retro structures thoughts into "What went well?" versus "What needs improvement?", the approach of "Continue, Stop, Start" might yield a creative brainstorm that also takes into account the tradeoffs of launching new processes.

Henrik Kniberg, Agile/Lean Coach, Spotify

Retrospectives were originally designed for a single team; but what is the best way learnings from big, complex, multi-site efforts involving dozens of teams? The team at Spotify developed an approach designed to solve this problem.

GitLab, Editorial Team, GitLab

GitLab's teams follow a pretty standard retrospective. They also came up with a process for how to scale retrospectives across teams by introducing a "retrospective of retrospectives" process.