Along the end of a year and the beginning of a new one it is common to reflect and to identify whatever did not worked out well and what was successful during the year about to end. Frequently, during the last days of December we build up an introspective environment that leads us to formulate the goals and purposes for the upcoming year both in our personal and professional areas. It is very similar to a gathering of a retrospective session of a project’s sprint where the team members discuss the learned lessons in order to identify improvement opportunities. The debates during the Sprint retrospective meetings include whatever failed as well as whatever succeeded with the objective to learn and to improve in order to be prepared for the next Sprint. The main objectives of the meeting are to identify three specific aspects:
- Those things that the team must keep on doing: better practices
- Those things that the team need to change or start doing: process improvements
- Those things that the team needs to suppress: process problems and bottlenecking.
Lourdes Medina 