The Agile Retrospective

The retrospective meeting is the primary time at which new improvements are considered and prior improvements are assessed. On Scrum projects, the sprint retrospective is held at the end of the sprint, after the sprint review and prior to sprint planning for the next sprint.

The purpose of the retrospective is to inspect how the sprint went, generate improvement ideas, evaluate improvement ideas that have been implemented from prior retrospectives, and create a plan for implementing improvements in the next sprint. The Scrum Master facilitates the meeting, and the whole Scrum team participates.

The general flow of the meeting follows this sequence:

1. Set the stage. Suggest an improvement mindset; ...