GCU MGT641 Agile Project Management Week 8 Assignment

MGT641 Agile Project Management

Week 8 Assignment  

CLC: Project Retrospective Meeting

This is a CLC assignment.

The final step in the agile project-development process is the project retrospective meeting held upon the project’s completion. The project retrospective serves two purposes. The first is celebratory. Celebrating a job well done can improve an agile team’s morale and performance. Second, like a sprint retrospective, the project retrospective is an opportunity to evaluate a project and identify areas of improvement for the next project. It focuses on similar questions. What went well in this project? What were the problem areas? What can we take forward into the next project to improve our team’s performance?

All team members should attend the meeting. The product owner and members of management also may be invited, unless their presence would intimidate or otherwise prevent the team from openly voicing their perspectives. The meeting should be facilitated by a relatively disinterested facilitator whose primary role is to accomplish the meeting agenda and encourage positive interactions. As is the case with a sprint retrospective, the meeting should not be allowed to degenerate into a complaint session. The goal is to identify actionable items to promote future progress.

For your final CLC assignment, your team will hold a project retrospective meeting with the goal of building consensus about your team’s successes and challenges, and identifying improvements that could be carried out in the future if this agile team continued to work together on additional projects. Like your sprint retrospective, you are evaluating your team’s efforts in implementing agile practices in completing the course’s CLC deliverables during the course. All team members should take their own meeting notes. While you will report some of the meeting’s findings on the attached “Project Retrospective Meeting Report,” each team member will also compose their own individual Project Retrospective Report. For the meeting assignment:

Select a facilitator (must be a team member) to organize and direct the meeting.

The facilitator should compose a meeting agenda and distribute it to all team members prior to the meeting. The agenda should ensure all team members share their perspective and direct the team to identify what worked well in the project, what did not work well, and what the team could do better next time around.

Hold your project retrospective meeting and complete “Project Retrospective Meeting Report.” template.

The facilitator should submit the report by the end of the module.

APA style is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

This assignment uses a scoring guide. Please review the scoring guide prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

 

MGT641 Agile Project Management

Week 8 Assignment  

Benchmark – Project Retrospective Report

In 250-500 words, complete and submit the attached “Project Retrospective Report.” Your team will need to hold its Project Retrospective Meeting prior to your completion of the report.

APA style is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.

Benchmark Information

This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competency:

MBA Project Management

5.3:  Use evaluation measures during and after projects that support flexibility, efficiency, and continual improvement within teams and organizations.