Looking Forward to Retrospective

Haven’t heard the word “retrospective”? Maybe in some company, this isn’t the term they’re using, but in the most web development company, it is very popular most especially if they are using Scrum process like we do. A retrospective is another term for the meeting, where employees gathered together to talk about a specific topic but retrospective is somehow different. In meetings, sometimes it happens once in a while if there were really important to talk about, but in retro, it happens once in a week or what we called the sprint before another sprint starts.

The agenda of retro is about all the things that happened the last sprint. Team members are gathered together to talk about it and discuss items that everyone should know. It is usually time-boxed for one hour and the Scrum Master is the assigned person to conduct Sprint Retrospective.

Here in Portal Integrators, we have our retro every Tuesday before our day ends. It is usually after the sprint end and before the new sprint begins. We had this after our lunch, for about one hour, starting 2 PM to 3 PM. The first thing that we discussed in retro is about the items that need to be addressed before the new sprint, so that everyone from the team will know. The second part of it is identifying our happiness metric for the company, team, and for each role. It is rated from 1-5. 1 being the lowest and 5 being the highest. You should also state the reason why you give a low rate so that ways to improve it is identified.