Episode 105: Retrospectives with Linda Rising
Recording Venue: QCon London, 2008
Guest(s): Linda Rising
Host(s): Markus
In this episode we’re talking to Linda Rising about retrospectives. We start by defining what a retrospective is and discuss some of the logistics of making it work for software projects. We then look at the different phases of a retrospective. The main part then is a discussion about some of the practices or games that are used to facilitate the retrospective. We conclude the retrospective discussion with destroying some of the prejudices against it and the relationship to process improvement and CMM.
At the end of the interview we talk a little about Linda’s current interest: how does the brain work?
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Tags: domain-driven design, owl, rdf, rfid
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Thank you linda ,this is one of great episode Linda and to the SE-Radio team for this excellent episode.
I am still catching up on the episodes, one by one, and I just finished this one. And, in short, it was transformative. I am a strong believer in the human component to software development. In fact, I believe that the human component is what makes software development stand out as a discipline…making it one of the most complete arts that exist. And, Linda truly illustrates that. It’s the first time that I actually got a lump in my throat listening to a professional podcast. 🙂
I was inspired by this episode to introduce retrospectives to my team. I truly hope I can get buy in. I will by buying Linda’s book. She gives me something concrete to aspire to, and I greatly appreciate that.
P.S. I should mention that I have a strong interest in the mind. I studied cognition before computer science, and it will always be my first academic love. I also studied anthropology which had a strong primate component.
Nathan
http://www.purecognition.com
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