We tried retrospective for Regio project. Each team member (who responded) sent his/her answers to following questions:
1) Project management
positive (things to keep)
negative (things to improve)
2) Requirements analysis/design
same as for 1
3) Implementation
...
4) Testing
...
5) Support/documentation
...
At first I thought of just writing summary document of all responses but then I decided to go with a bit different approach. As some probably have already noticed I created whole bunch of pages to Confluence (https://intranet.aqris.com/confluence//x/wRY). I believe that this format is much more interesting than 4 pages of old style non linked non extendable content.
There is one thing however that at first troubled me. What is the point of all this? I mean isn't all this wisdom already in hundreds of books and thousands of websites? I still believe that similar observations have been done by others but I believe there are many things that give this effort quite clear meaning:
1) these patterns have been noticed in the environment of our company which makes them much more reusable than some general stuff
2) everyone can actively participate.
I hope that these pages are just the beginning of putting together set of best practices that can be reused by all project teams in Aqris.
Comments (2)
Jun 26, 2006
ahti says:
You asked: "What is the point of all this?" In addition to your answer I believe...You asked: "What is the point of all this?"
In addition to your answer I believe that the point of having this kind of after-project analysis is to be sure that NONE of the mistakes is NEVER done again. And MOST of the positive aspects could be moved to organizational level so that next projects can learn from these.
Very good initative!
Current organization of retrospectives is good and it must be thought how to get make this into a more adabtable action-plan for next projects. There are a few guidlines for this kind of project analysis in CMMI and maybe Siim can try to help us with.
This way we are better with knowledge sharing --- personal experience becomes company experience.
My Humble Opinion
Jun 26, 2006
siim.saarlo says:
My opinion is as well that the question you asked was answered with 2 points you...My opinion is as well that the question you asked was answered with 2 points you gave and Ahti's comment.
It is much more costly to start improving the processes based on knowledge and practicies from "hundreds of books and thousands of websites" without first analyzing the processes we already have (eg. finding out things to keep and things to improve).
It is defenately worth to keep completing this bank of good & bad practicies and with input from other projects develop it to set of organizational processes (draft project plans, TODO checklists etc.)
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