05 | AGILE RETROSPECTIVE

THIS IS AN INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT WORTH 15% OF THE OVERALL COURSE GRADE

OVERVIEW

Select a technology project that you've worked on in your organization that didn't go as planned (if you don't have a project, your instructor or facilitator can give you examples of external projects). The CEO of the company has brought you in to perform a retrospective with the project team so they can determine a path forward leveraging agile practices.

ASSIGNMENT COMPONENTS

Identify key challenges and possible agile solutions that the project team can use to improve their delivery processes going forward. Supplement your retrospective with at least three additional high-quality external sources outside of the course materials.

Consider the following questions in your retrospective:

What went well?

What didn't go well?

What have we learned?

What should we do differently (with recommendations) and why?

How would the team begin to implement the recommendations?

PRESENTING YOUR WORK

Create /generate a ~10-slide presentation on your topic. Your presentation should include the following elements:

Topic introduction: Give us a brief overview of your topic. If you selected a project or organization that you've personally worked with, give us a brief background on the organization/project.

Key issues: As you imagine what did not go well, identify key issues for which you will research possible solutions. Are you trying to solve a problem? Find best practices? Learn something new?

What did your research tell you? What did you learn through your research and how does it apply to your topic?

Recommendations and conclusions: What agile approaches would benefit this project going forward?

What conclusions can you draw from your research?

What do you want your audience to take away from the presentation?

Path forward: What would the team or organization need to do to implement your recommendations?

Appendix: List the sources used in your research; only list sources that are referenced in your slides