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Feedback via retrospectives

Feedback via retrospectives

From the course: Agile Software Development: Pair and Mob Programming

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Feedback via retrospectives

- [Instructor] One of the most effective ways I've seen teams convene so that they can learn how to be more effective, really in all aspects of mobbing or pairing is something called a retrospective. I find it particularly useful in helping teams learn how to communicate more effectively. Now this technique comes from a set of practices that is codified in a very well-known book from Esther Derby and Diana Larson called "Agile Retrospectives". And if you want to learn more, you might want to take a look at that book, but what a retrospective is and means succinctly is paired or team review of the results of a set of work. So for example, a sprint, one week's work, maybe one activity, one day's work, verbalizes technical learning gained from coding. And it also includes learnings about pair or team dynamics. Now there are a number of techniques that are known in the industry, and these can relate from something simple like…

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