1. Being retrospective about your iteration

3. Agile methodologies encourage continuous improvement

4. Agile development teams look for opportunities to improve

5. During the iteration, the team acquires valuable experience

6. Good teams use their experiences to improve themselves

7. Use iteration retrospectives to learn from your experiences

9. Step 1: Look back at the iteration for ways to improve

11. Ask questions about current challenges and future risks

12. Ask yourself what worked well and what the team has achieved

13. Ask “what were the significant decisions taken?”

15. Step 2: Record information learnt from the iteration

17. Use a checklist to cover all important aspects

18. Each team member uses the checklist to contribute their experiences

19. Avoid using strict templates, as they constrain flexibility

21. Step 3: Extract and discuss your iteration in a formal meeting

23. The minutes form the documentation for the retrospective

24. Use the checklist to prepare for the meeting

25. Discuss and summarize the experiences of the team

26. Will your team improve with experience?

28. Good teams learn from their mistakes and use opportunities

29. Use iteration retrospectives to learn from your experiences

30. Iteration retrospectives can improve the whole team

31. Make the most of your own experience