Reading a book about Retrospectives

I'm reading now a book about retrospectives. The book is called "Agile Retrospectives. Making Good Teams Great". This type of retrospectives is focus on iterative development software and teams. The authors are Esther Derby and Diana Larsen.

Table of Contents

• Introduction


• Helping your Team Inspect and Adapt


• Set the Stage


• Gather the Stage


• Generate the Insights


• Decide What to Do


• Close the Retrospective




• A Retrospective Custom-Fit your Team


• Learning About the History and Environment


• Shaping the Goal for the Retrospective


• Determining Duration


• Structuring a Retrospective


• Selecting Activities




• Leading Retrospectives


• Managing Activities


• Managing Group Dynamics


• Managing Time


• Managing You


• Taking Your Skills to the Next Level




• Activities to Set the Stage


• Check-In


• Focus On/Focus Off


• ESVP


• Working Agreements




• Activities to Gather Data


• Timeline


• Triple Nickels


• Color Code Dots


• Mad Sad Glad


• Locate Strenghts


• Satisfaction Histogram


• Team Radar


• Like to Like




• Activities to Generate Insights


• Brainstorming/Filtering


• Force Field Analysis


• Five Whys


• Fishbone


• Patterns and Shifts


• Prioritize with Dots


• Report Out with Sytnthesis


• Indentify Themes


• Learning Matrix




• Activities to Decide What to Do


• Retrospective Planning Game


• SMART Goals


• Circle of Questions


• Short Subjects




• Activities to Close the Retrospective


• +/Delta


• Appreciations


• Temperature Reading


• Helped, Hindered, Hypothesis


• Return on Time Invested (ROTI)




• Releases and Project Retrospectives


• Preparing for Release and Project Retrospectives


• Including Cross-Organizational Perspectives


• Leading Release and Project Retrospectives


• A Retrospective a Every Ending




• Make it So


• Provide Support


• Share Responsibility for Making Changes


• Supporting Larger Changes