Pragmatic Bookshelf releases "Agile Retrospectives"

Make Good Teams Great with "Agile Retrospectives"


Project retrospectives help teams examine what went right and what went
wrong on a project. But traditionally, retrospectives (also known as
"post-mortems") are only held at the end of the project--too late to help.
You need agile retrospectives that are iterative and incremental. You need
to accurately find and fix problems to help the team today.

In "Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great" (Pragmatic Bookshelf,
US $29.95, 0-9776166-4-9), Esther Derby and Diana Larsen show you how to
mine the experience of your software development team continually
throughout the life of the project. The tools and recipes in this book
will help you uncover and solve hidden (and not-so-hidden) problems with
your technology, your methodology, and those difficult "people issues" on
your team.

You'll be able to address the problems you face on a software development
project on an on-going basis. You'll see how to architect retrospectives
in general, and how to design them specifically for your team and
organization. You'll learn tricks and tips to run retrospectives
effectively, and see how to make the needed changes in your team and
organization. You'll see how to scale these techniques up to larger
teams.

Armed with this book, you'll be able to:

-Design and run effective retrospectives
-Learn how to find and fix problems
-Find and reinforce team strengths
-Address people issues as well as technological
-Use tools and recipes proven in the real world

You'll learn how to deal with problems, and implement solutions
effectively throughout the project--not just at the end.

You'll be able to make a difference.

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Agile Retrospectives
Esther Derby and Diana Larsen
Foreword by Ken Schwaber
ISBN 0-9776166-4-9 
200 pages, $29.95 US, $38.95 CA, softcover.

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