From the course: Agile Project Management: Continuous Improvement

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Ensuring learning

Ensuring learning

- Have you ever been involved in a postmortem that's more about assigning blame than determining what happened and what you could do better next time? If you have, you know that learning in organizations doesn't happen by chance, but through an explicit effort to embed it in the organization's technologies and its agreements, artifacts, and rituals. As a project manager on agile improvement projects, you foster a culture of learning and continuous improvement among team members through these mechanisms. The primary means you'll use to ensure learning is to facilitate sprint retrospectives at the end of each sprint and the beginning of your next sprint planning. It's where the team evaluates the sprint and plans improvements for the next one. It is your chance to see what the team accomplished and what work, if any, is left, and to share what went well during the sprint and planning process and what you can improve on for the next time. Typically, the agenda includes the following…

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