{"id":5003262,"date":"2015-12-16T23:13:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T07:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aadev22.local\/?post_type=aa_glossary&#038;p=5003262"},"modified":"2022-08-29T15:57:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T22:57:05","slug":"milestone-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"aa_glossary","link":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/glossary\/milestone-retrospective\/","title":{"rendered":"Milestone Retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once a project has been underway for some time, or at the end of the project (in that case, especially when the team is likely to work together again), all of the team\u2019s permanent members (not just the developers) invest in one to three days in a detailed analysis of the project\u2019s significant events.<\/p>\n<p>Even more than an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/guide.agilealliance.org\/guide\/heartbeatretro.html\">iteration retrospective<\/a>, this should be a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/glossary\/facilitation\/\">facilitated<\/a>\u00a0meeting, adhering to a structured format that varies according to objectives but will be specified in advance.<\/p>\n<h2>Also Known As<\/h2>\n<p>The terms \u201cproject retrospective\u201d or \u201cinterim retrospective\u201d are also used, the intent being to distinguish them from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/glossary\/heartbeatretro\/\">iteration retrospective<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Common Pitfalls<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Retrospectives should generally be facilitated by someone external to the team rather than one of the members, managers, or stakeholders; someone with a vested interest in the project\u2019s outcomes would find it difficult to both facilitate discussions impartially and take part in them.<\/li>\n<li>The main concerns in a milestone retrospective are different than those of an iteration retrospective, and may have a broader impact: they include the long-term or strategic viability of the project, healthy work relationships among team members, or governance concerns, while iteration retrospectives tend to focus on concrete and tactical matters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Further Reading<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/dp\/0932633447\">Project Retrospectives<\/a>\u00a0by Norm Kerth (2001)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Milestone Retrospective is a team&#8217;s detailed analysis of the project&#8217;s significant events after a set period of time or at the project&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8027401,"featured_media":8067461,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[908],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5003262","aa_glossary","type-aa_glossary","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-process"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aa_glossary\/5003262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aa_glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/aa_glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8027401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5003262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aa_glossary\/5003262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8067461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5003262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5003262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilealliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5003262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}