Improving the restrospectives continuously

Retrospectives are just a part of continuous improvement, as retrospectives are a snapshot of your perception of the team's practices at any given moment. We need to further analyze the results of the retrospective, take the improvement actions seriously, and start seeing how each of us needs to change personally to improve the whole ecosystem. We cannot change the system without changing our personal behavior little by little. That is why, more than retrospectives, we should also look into a few more topics, all of which we will cover in this section.

Analyzing the results

As you started with a clear purpose in mind, you can check, after a while, if you are on the good path or not. Let's say you started with the purpose of minimizing the number of defects, and you started pair programming with that in mind.

Make sure all the data is available to the whole team. A good idea is that the whole team analyzes the data and...