• Try to find ways how to measure the usefulness/effectiveness of retrospectives from management point of view

Facilitator: Charlotte Malther

• Where are we now?
• Analyze requirements for measuresments
• Motto: What’s good for team is good for the management!

• Sales figures
• Development environment issues
• Time to market
• Delivery date on time
• Issues, bugs found after a release
• Distribution of bugs over the project phases
• Failures of 3rd party agreements
• Understanding of department priorities
• Usage of project budget
• Changes of resources during the project

Some months after the retrospective I ask the participants personally the following questions:

• What do you think how much part of the defined action items has been accomplished?

Possible answers: none, partly, mainly, entirely.

• How many positive changes have occured as a result of the last retrospective?

Possible answers: none, some, several, many.

• How far did you manage to take into consideration the findings of the last retrospective?

Possible answers: none, partly, mainly, entirely.

• If your last answer was other than “entirely”, please give me the reason(s) for this.

• Would you recommend the retrospective to other colleagues?

Possible answers: no, yes.

• Do you have any further comments?

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• Charlotte
• Ervin
• Marcus
• Roxanne