FY21-Q1 Manage:Analytics Iteration Retrospective
Iteration is one of six GitLab Values.
People that join GitLab all say they already practice this iteration. But this is the value that they have the hardest time adopting. People are trained that if you don't deliver a perfect or polished thing, you get dinged for it. If you do just one piece of something, you have to come back to it. Doing the whole thing seems more efficient, even though it isn't.
Managers have been asked to hold iteration retrospectives with their development groups to cover the following:
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Discuss past examples of successful iteration. Why was it successful? How did it meet the definition of an MVC? -
Discuss past examples that could use improvement. How did the example not meet the definition of an MVC? In what ways could you have iterated differently? List specific examples. -
Using the results of these discussions, choose a piece of work that's ready for development and discuss how it could be better iterated on. -
Identify areas of improvement for the team and incorporate into your Product Development Workflow
These are topics we often talk about during 1:1s and group meetings, so it would be great for everyone to share their thoughts and suggest improvements.
Edited by Dan Jensen