Thom Roach shares with us in this blog post the metrics that he includes in iteration summary reports. The three main statistics he uses are Iteration Statistics summary, Iteration Cumulative Flow and Team Velocity Chart.

 The Dialogue Sheet is a new technique for team retrospectives in Scrum Projects. This technique involves a large sheet of paper that help to create good discussion and teamwork in Agile and Scrum projects.

In this blog post, Marc Löffler shares a checklist of items and best practices that should facilitate the a successful retrospective for a distributed team. Even if virtual retrospectives are fine, he suggests that distributed team should meet personally on a regular basis, if possible every two retrospectives.

When developers understand the need for change in the software development process, they can accomplish it. The challenge is to guide them towards the realization of the needed change and let them lead it. This requires a conceptual change and it is our role to lead this change in the initial stages of adopting agility. One mechanism that can be used to guide this change process is one-hour retrospective sessions that take place at the end of each iteration.

This video explains how to perform a personal retrospective:
* Clarify the Purpose
* Assess Decision-making Influences
* Gather Data
* Distill the Learning and Transform Leaning into Plans

This article proposes four “smells” that might indicate that you’re not optimally practicing whole-team approach in your Scrum software development project

Each Scrum Sprint should produce two results: 1) A product or service which is an increment of functionality closer to delivery and 2) a better, happier, more productive team. Peter Stevens explains that the retrospective is the primary opportunity for achieving the second result.

This blog post propose a way to remind the action points of the last Scrum retrospective to improve the chances that the team deals with them in the next sprint.

This series of articles was cre­at­ed to help you get the prac­tice of ret­ro­spec­tives built into your com­pany. It walks through the approach, nec­es­sary roles, in addi­tion to guides for each role to help your com­pany get started quickly.

Erin Beierwaltes gives some interesting tips to improve retrospectives and propose an agenda for them.