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History of Sprint Retrospectives

Last post 10:02 pm January 10, 2024 by Ian Mitchell
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12:26 pm January 7, 2024

Hello dear community, I am currently researching how sprint retrospectives affect employee satisfaction in my master's thesis. Since I have found almost no scientific documents about it, my study follows the exploratory approach.
I took the definition of the sprint retrospective from the Scrum Guide. I would like to add background information about the format of the Sprint Retrospective. For example, how it was developed or from which other format it emerged. Do you know where I can find information about this or who I can ask?

Thank you very much for your help.


06:15 pm January 10, 2024

Hi, You can find a lot of information in the book Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time. It  talks about Deming's  method of "PDCA cycle" -plan,do,check, and act,  and "Happiness" of the team and how quantify  it and how it should be harnessed into productivity. 


10:02 pm January 10, 2024

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