Preparation and Facilitation of Retrospective Meeting in Scrum process

Abstract

Agile methods have become very popular in software development. They emphasise importance of collaboration and communication in successful product development. Scrum is one of the most popular agile methods and it involves a number of artefacts and practices. The retrospective is one of the practices. It is an activity that serves a purpose as a team meeting to improve development processes. It is a time-boxed event, which should be planned and facilitated in order to obtain the best outcome. The paper aims at identifying appropriate practices for organising and running successful retrospectives. The practices are identified in the paper along with their attributes and usage suggestions.