Don Gray coaches people in software development organizations that want to achieve better productivity. With over 25 years experience in software development, Don helps his clients work through organizational change and deliver quality product on time and in budget. He helps teams increase their effectiveness by reducing the chaos of change. He teaches and mentors software developers, their managers, and their customers.

Don and his wife Karol love being outdoors. Karol retired from teaching and occasionally visits Don during his work travels. Their 3 children have settled down to careers and loved ones. Don’s progressed beyond adrenalin junkie (EMT & Swift Water Rescue Instructor) but still teaches and enjoys white water kayaking.

Historically software process improvement involved using tools and techniques determined by others to be the “best” of practice/breed whatever. Occasionally at the end of the project a postmortem was held. Postmortem accurately describes the event because:

• The information couldn’t be used to improve the project results.
• The project was over, often dead.
• The information gleaned was committed to documents and not used in future projects.

With the advent of short time boxed iterations, postmortems shifted to retrospectives where the team would inspect their development practices and adapt to improve their results. I like retrospectives better than postmortems.

What I want to do is find a way to move from retrospectives to “inspectives”. Creating a continuous improvement, a learning environment. Going meta and getting better at how we get better. Knowing when to become more efficient and when to become less efficient so we can change and become more effective.

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