Exercise 20

Q1:

Here's a retrospective from the first release of XTrack. Which two or three items would you choose to work on for the next iteration?

Stop

• Having uneven distribution of task ownership

• Starting the iteration with incomplete requirements

Start

• Pairing more, both to write production code and to test

• Writing the acceptance tests in advance of the iteration

• Having a more regular schedule

• Communicating constantly, have regular standups

  

• More knowledge sharing

Continue

• Remote pairing

• Estimating fairly accurately

• Being flexible about changing the requirements when we see things that work better