Comments on: Retrospectives http://www.onemanwrites.co.uk/2008/04/14/retrospectives/ musings on technical communications Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:18:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Adrian McEwen http://www.onemanwrites.co.uk/2008/04/14/retrospectives/#comment-2898 Adrian McEwen Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:02:29 +0000 http://www.onemanwrites.co.uk/?p=121#comment-2898 Sounds like they went really well, probably helped by the fact that there was someone in the explicit role of facilitator. I'm impressed that you (as a company) made time for it - whenever I've been involved in such post-mortems they've been useful, but it's so easy to get caught up with the next project and skip the retrospective. Are your post-it notes different colours? You could use them as big 'pixels' to create a mosaic on a wall of the office :-) Sounds like they went really well, probably helped by the fact that there was someone in the explicit role of facilitator. I’m impressed that you (as a company) made time for it - whenever I’ve been involved in such post-mortems they’ve been useful, but it’s so easy to get caught up with the next project and skip the retrospective.

Are your post-it notes different colours? You could use them as big ‘pixels’ to create a mosaic on a wall of the office :-)

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