Agile Anti-Patterns: Sprint Retrospective Anti-Patterns Part I

David Theil
14 min readSep 7, 2022

Content:

  • What is a Sprint Retrospective?
  1. No Retrospective Needed
  2. Retrospectives are of no use
  3. Postpone to the next Retrospective
  4. Retrospective the dispensable Buffer Time
  5. Hasty Retrospective
  6. Broken Las Vegas Rule
  7. The Team in the Victim Role
  8. Action Items are not SMART

INFO: This article is part of the series on agile anti-patterns.
For more agile anti-patterns see the entire series.

Agile Anti-Pattern Series:
- General Agile Anti-Patterns
Scrum Anti-Patterns
- Daily Scrum/ Daily Standup Anti-Patterns
- Sprint Anti-Patterns Part I
- Sprint Anti-Patterns Part II
- Sprint Anti-Patterns Part III
- Backlog Anti-Patterns Part I
- Backlog-Anti-Patterns Part II
- Refinement-Anti-Patterns
- Sprint Review Anti Patterns Part I
- Sprint Review Anti Patterns Part II
- Sprint Review Anti Patterns Part III
- Retrospective Anti Patterns Part I
- Retrospective Anti Patterns Part II
- Retrospective Anti Patterns Part III
- Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns Part I
- Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns Part II
- Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns Part III
- Role Anti-Patterns Part I
- Role

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