Synopsis
"The Iteration Retrospective is a short meeting held at the the end of each Iteration, wherein team members gather in a
private, safe environment to discuss the efficacy of their practices and define improvements for the upcoming period.
The quantitative portion reviews any metrics the team is using; the qualitative part discusses the various team
practices, and the specific challenges that presented themselves. When issues have been identified, teams identify
corrective actions needed to address those issues."
Details 
The Scrum Master facilitates the Iteration Retrospective with the team and captures information what worked and
what didn't work well in the Iteration and how the team can do better the next time around.
Prepare
The Scrum Master sends out meeting invitations. See Meetings and Rational Team Concert for general guidfance on preparing and conducting meetings.
Conduct Quantitative Review (Part 1)
The Scrum Master facilitates the meeting, ensuring that it stays within the allocated time, and participates as a peer.
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Step
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Tool guidance
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1. View the Sprint Goals
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Click Work Items > My Queries
Run the query "Sprint Goals- <team name>".
This query was created in Team Area (RTC) .
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2. Discuss the Sprint Goals
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Open the Sprint Goal (created as a Team PI Objective) work item:
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If the team met the sprint goal, change the state to Resolved.
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If the team did not meet the sprint goal, set the Planned for attribute to the
next iteration or to the backlog.
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If the goal is no longer relevant, change the state to Invalidate it.
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3. Collect and review the Sprint (Iteration) Metrics
For more information see Metrics.
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M1: Iteration metric reports are displayed on the Scrum Master and Product Owner tabs of the Team
dashboard.
Click Project Dashboards > All [Project name] Dashboards > [Team Name]
These reports were setup in Team Area (RTC) .
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Conduct Qualitative Review (Part 2)
The Scrum Master facilitates the meeting, ensuring that it stays within the allocated time, and participates as a peer.
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Step
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Tool guidance
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1. Review improvement stories from current sprint
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Click Work Items > My Queries
Run the query "Improvement Stories - <team name>" .
This query was created in Team Area (RTC) .
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2. Discuss what worked well
Record what worked well for future reference.
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Click Work Items > Create Work Item > Retrospective
Add a section in Notes titled:
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What worked well in the Sprint?
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3. Discuss what didn't work well, and how we can improve
Record what did not work well for future reference.
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Open the retrospective work item. Add a section in Notes titled:
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What didn't work well and how can we do better next time?
Consider performing a team level self-assessment. See IBM Safe Team
Self Assessment.
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4. Create stories for future improvements
In order to track the improvements that the team decides to do, you can create stories, assign
them to owners and mark as completed when done.
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You can create the improvement stories with the retrospective work
item as parents as follows:
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Create a Story work item
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Describe the improvement
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Add the retrospective as parent:
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Click the Links tab
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Click the arrow next to Add Related and select
Add Parent
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Follow-up
The Scrum Master performs the following housekeeping steps.
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Step
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Tool guidance
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1. Standard meeting follow-up items
This includes creating work items from meeting notes, soliciting feedback from absent
members, resolving any work item associated with the meeting, and creating snapshots of meeting-related
work products.
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Meetings and Rational Team Concert
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2. Advance the current Sprint
In addition to standard meeting followup items the Scrum Master updates the project environment to
reflect that the current Sprint is over, and starts a new Sprint.
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Even though the start and end dates for each Sprint have already been defined, Rational Team
Concert doesn’t advance to the next Sprint automatically, even though the current one was completed.
This needs to be done manually by the Scrum Master.
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Click the Administration
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Click Timelines.
In the Defined Timelines area, expand the timeline to display the Sprints.
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Select the new Sprint
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Click the Set the Selected Iteration as Current
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See Creating timelines and iterations.
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