Retrospective Analysis

Readings

These slides
The Agile Samurai: Chapters 9, 10, 11
Cause-effect Diagrams (PDF) by Henrik Kniberg
Five Why by Eric Ries

Continuous Team Improvement

To improve your processes, analyze first
Replace gut feelings with
- causal understanding
- evidence
- cheap agile-friendly process changes

An analysis template

Start with a possible issue

Link to a metric that matters

Link to a metric that matters

What Kniberg calls "visible damage."

Identify the causes

Usually need to go two or three levels deep.

Propose a change

Need to find a fixable cause.

Thanks to Hakim El Hattab for the slide template