CPE 308 Team Project Retrospective Report
The Project Retrospective meeting is a chance for your team to reflect
on
the team project experience and to summarize lessons learned.
Assign
someone to be a recorder to take notes and then write a report
summarizing
the team discussion.
You might want to organize your discussion around the following
project
categories:
- Management (including meetings, action items, schedule.)
- Processes
- Communication / Coordination
- Group Dynamics
- Technical
- Quality
- Other
The main objective is to identify areas of success and issues that need
improvement.
The following questions are good for getting discussion started and
for keeping the conversation focused.
Accomplishments
What did we accomplish? Did we meet our goals? What activities or
tactics
worked well for us?
Problems
What difficulties did we encounter? How did we resolve them or
workaround
them?
Weaknesses
In what areas was our performance less than satisfactory? What are the
areas of weakness for our team? What aspects of team functioning need
improvement? Consider individually completing McConnell's
Survival Test (pp12-16)
and sharing your results.
Lessons Learned
What important lessons did we learn? What are the key "take away" points
for us to remember?
Plans
What are the plans for improvement in 309? What specific actions
will be taken to overcome this quarter's shortcomings?
The report must include team name, manager name, date and
location of meeting, attendee names.
Here are some examples of good
and poor reports.