TY  - GEN
A1  - Matthies, Christoph
T1  - Agile process improvement in retrospectives
T2  - 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (ICSE-Companion)
N2  - Working in iterations and repeatedly improving team workflows based on collected feedback is fundamental to agile software development processes. Scrum, the most popular agile method, provides dedicated retrospective meetings to reflect on the last development iteration and to decide on process improvement actions. However, agile methods do not prescribe how these improvement actions should be identified, managed or tracked in detail. The approaches to detect and remove problems in software development processes are therefore often based on intuition and prior experiences and perceptions of team members. Previous research in this area has focused on approaches to elicit a team's improvement opportunities as well as measurements regarding the work performed in an iteration, e.g. Scrum burn-down charts. Little research deals with the quality and nature of identified problems or how progress towards removing issues is measured. In this research, we investigate how agile development teams in the professional software industry organize their feedback and process improvement approaches. In particular, we focus on the structure and content of improvement and reflection meetings, i.e. retrospectives, and their outcomes. Researching how the vital mechanism of process improvement is implemented in practice in modern software development leads to a more complete picture of agile process improvement.
KW  - Agile
KW  - Scrum
KW  - software process improvement
KW  - retrospective
Y1  - 2019
SN  - 978-1-7281-1764-5
SN  - 978-1-7281-1765-2
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-Companion.2019.00063
SN  - 2574-1934
SN  - 2574-1926
SP  - 150
EP  - 152
PB  - IEEE
CY  - New York
ER  -