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Retrospective

Meaning in project management, with examples

/ˌretrəˈspektɪv/nounCore term

In project management, retrospective means: A regular team meeting at the end of a sprint or project to discuss what went well, what did not and what to change in the next cycle.

In Turkish: retrospektif, geriye dönük değerlendirme

How it is used

One of the Scrum events, often shortened to retro in speech. Teams hold or run a retrospective and agree on a few improvement actions. The focus is on the process, not on blaming people.

Example sentences

  1. In the retrospective, the team agreed to stop accepting new work in the middle of the sprint.

  2. We hold a retrospective every two weeks, right after the sprint review.

Common collocations

  • sprint retrospective
  • hold a retrospective
  • retrospective actions
  • run a retro
  • sprintA short, fixed period, often two weeks and never longer than a month, in which a Scrum team completes an agreed set of work.
  • lessons learnedThe useful knowledge a team gains from a project, both from what went well and from what went wrong, recorded so future projects can benefit.
  • post-mortemA meeting or review held after a project or a serious problem has ended, to understand what happened, why, and what should be done differently next time.
  • scrum masterIn Scrum, the person who helps the team and the organisation understand and use Scrum well, runs or supports the events and helps remove obstacles that slow the team down.

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