Learning in the Large - An Exploratory Study of Retrospectives in Large-Scale Agile Development
Software Engineering
2018-11-30 v1
Abstract
Many see retrospectives as the most important practice of agile software development. Previous studies of retrospectives have focused on pro- cess and outcome at team level. In this article, we study how a large-scale agile development project uses retrospectives through an analysis of retrospective reports identifying a total of 109 issues and 36 action items as a part of a longitudinal case study. We find that most of the issues identified relate to team-level learning and improvement, and discuss these findings in relation to current advice to improve learning outcome in large-scale agile development.
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@article{arxiv.1805.10310,
title = {Learning in the Large - An Exploratory Study of Retrospectives in Large-Scale Agile Development},
author = {Torgeir Dingsøyr and Marius Mikalsen and Anniken Solem and Kathrine Vestues},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.10310},
year = {2018}
}
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Post-print of short-paper presented at XP2018, Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. XP 2018