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I found a really good resource-list from George Dinwiddie on Introspection and Retrospectives that includes the following list of resources (mostly patterns & techniques) about conducting retrospectives. It contains many (but not all) of the links below:

RestrospectiveTechniques compiled by George Dinwiddie
Agile Retrospectives Resource Wiki
Singing the Songs of Project Experience: Patterns and Retrospectives by Linda Rising and Esther Derby from Cutter IT Journal (PDF)
Restrospective Agility by Tim Mackinnon in Objective View (PDF)
http://www.retrospectives.com/ Norm Kerth's website.
Esther Derby's
- Seven Reasons to Have a Retrospective
- 6 Reasons *not* to have a Retrospective
- What a Retrospective Ain't
- Two more ways to gather data
- Five Tips for Retrospective Leaders and Meeting Moderators and Tips for Retrospective Facilitators
Rachel Davies'
- Heartbeat Retrospectives
- How To: Live and Learn with Retrospectives
- Refactoring Your Development Process with Retrospectives
- Marco Abis' Retrospectives IN and ON action
Sample chapters 3 & 5 from Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen:
- Chapter 3, Leading Retrospectives
- Chapter 5, Selected Activities
- Chapter 10, Make it So
- a 50min talk/presentation from Esther & Diana on YouTube
Ellen Gottesdiener's Team Retrospectives — for better iterative assessment looks at the topic from a RUP perspective.
Bill Wake's Some Patterns for Iteration Retrospectives
James Carr's Retrospective Patterns
Ian Burgess' Agile Retrospectives Lessons Learned
Ilja Preuss' Retrospective Anti-Patterns
Article: Leveraging Agile Retrospectives to Evolve Your Architecture
Simon Baker on Retrospective Using Appreciative Inquiry (see similar article by Diana Larsen)
Ben Coombs' A Retrospective based on Agile Values
Mark Levison's Agile Games for Making Retrospectives Interesting
Kris Blake's Retrospective Agenda for High-Performing Teams
Scrum Alliance - Seven Ways to Revitalize Your Sprint Retrospectives
Fabio Periera's Goal-Driven Retrospective
Mishkin Berteig's Agile Work: Cheat-Sheet for Retrospectives
Agile Journal - Iteration and Release Retrospectives: The Natural Rhythm for Agile Measurement
Retrospectives Content on InfoQ.com/retrospectives, including ...
- InfoQ: Heartbeat Retrospectives to Amplify Team
- InfoQ: Making Retrospective Changes Stick
- InfoQ: How Long Should Retrospectives Last?
- InfoQ: First (Forgotten?) Rule Of The Retrospective: Follow Through
- InfoQ: Annotated Burn-Down Charts Help During Retrospectives
- InfoQ: Frequent Retrospectives Accelerate Learning and Improvement
Jim Shore's brief recap and retrospective format from The Art of Agile Development (0596527675)

I found a really good resource-list from George Dinwiddie on Introspection and Retrospectives that includes the following list of resources (mostly patterns & techniques) about conducting retrospectives. It contains many (but not all) of the links below:

RestrospectiveTechniques compiled by George Dinwiddie
Agile Retrospectives Resource Wiki
Singing the Songs of Project Experience: Patterns and Retrospectives by Linda Rising and Esther Derby from Cutter IT Journal (PDF)
Restrospective Agility by Tim Mackinnon in Objective View (PDF)
http://www.retrospectives.com/ Norm Kerth's website.
Esther Derby's
- Seven Reasons to Have a Retrospective
- 6 Reasons *not* to have a Retrospective
- What a Retrospective Ain't
- Two more ways to gather data
- Five Tips for Retrospective Leaders and Meeting Moderators and Tips for Retrospective Facilitators
Rachel Davies'
- Heartbeat Retrospectives
- How To: Live and Learn with Retrospectives
- Refactoring Your Development Process with Retrospectives
- Marco Abis' Retrospectives IN and ON action
Sample chapters 3 & 5 from Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen:
- Chapter 3, Leading Retrospectives
- Chapter 5, Selected Activities
- Chapter 10, Make it So
- a 50min talk/presentation from Esther & Diana on YouTube
Ellen Gottesdiener's Team Retrospectives — for better iterative assessment looks at the topic from a RUP perspective.
Bill Wake's Some Patterns for Iteration Retrospectives
James Carr's Retrospective Patterns
Ian Burgess' Agile Retrospectives Lessons Learned
Ilja Preuss' Retrospective Anti-Patterns
Article: Leveraging Agile Retrospectives to Evolve Your Architecture
Simon Baker on Retrospective Using Appreciative Inquiry (see similar article by Diana Larsen)
Ben Coombs' A Retrospective based on Agile Values
Mark Levison's Agile Games for Making Retrospectives Interesting
Kris Blake's Retrospective Agenda for High-Performing Teams
Scrum Alliance - Seven Ways to Revitalize Your Sprint Retrospectives
Fabio Periera's Goal-Driven Retrospective
Mishkin Berteig's Agile Work: Cheat-Sheet for Retrospectives
Agile Journal - Iteration and Release Retrospectives: The Natural Rhythm for Agile Measurement
Retrospectives Content on InfoQ.com/retrospectives, including ...
- InfoQ: Heartbeat Retrospectives to Amplify Team
- InfoQ: Making Retrospective Changes Stick
- InfoQ: How Long Should Retrospectives Last?
- InfoQ: First (Forgotten?) Rule Of The Retrospective: Follow Through
- InfoQ: Annotated Burn-Down Charts Help During Retrospectives
- InfoQ: Frequent Retrospectives Accelerate Learning and Improvement
Jim Shore's brief recap and retrospective format from The Art of Agile Development (0596527675)

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