Agile (Team) retrospectives ("retros" for short) are regular team workshops in which teams reflect on and improve their collaboration.
Retros offer teams the opportunity to reflect on current work results and, above all, their collaboration, communication and working methods in short, iterative (sprint) cycles (e.g. every 2 weeks).
In essence, the retro answers the following 3 questions:
- What has worked well in the last few weeks? These things should be continued or expanded as a team.
- What didn't work out so well? These things should be improved or left out.
- What will we do differently from now on? In other words, record concrete measures.
Tools for retrospectives such as Echometer simplify and structure this process of reflection and improvement.