Project Community Retrospectives

Frequent team retrospectives are a fundamental component of agile process. Agile Coaches or ScrumMasters need to know and practice a variety of exercises. Yet the art of doing retrospectives with multiple teams, sometimes distributed across sites or countries, is still under development. The actual implementation of retrospectives for multiple teams ranges from scattered team based retrospectives with no or little exchange between the facilitators, to less frequent release retrospectives with limitations on knowledge exchange and generation. We want to share some models of multi-team retrospectives that work in different environments, and show ways to design a retrospective for agile project communities above team level, that does not exclude the individual team member perspectives but helps to integrate them. Built upon the 5 elements of a retrospective described by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen, we will show how to perform frequent scaled variations of well-known exercises to: - Create Safety - Obtain a Shared Picture - Gather Insights - Plan Actions - Close the Retrospective

The audience should be familiar with the core concepts of retrospectives.