Every team after the the sprint have to have time to reflect on the finished release. This type of the meeting is very popular in Agile development and is called a retrospective meeting or retro. It allows a team and all team members to highlight and discuss about success and failures of the project, identify the areas to improve in terms of the project development or management.
Agile Toolbox for Jira is a missing part of the Jira Software. The plugin gives the functionality of preparing and processing this type of the meeting both offline and online, in the real time.
Opening retrospectives section
Retrospectives are defined in the scope of the project board. Thanks to that each team with a separate project board can define own retrospectives.
Each user who has an access to the project board has permission to create the retrospective meeting definition.
Defining new retrospective
By pressing “New retrospective” button user is redirected to the configuration view
The configuration view consist of the following elements:
Actions - user can return to the retrospective list view and discard the changes by pressing “Cancel” button or saved the configuration by pressing “Save” button.
Retrospective name - mandatory field
The template list - the plugin contains a definition of some of the most popular column list used in the retro meetings ( see Pic 4) . The user can choose one and the he can save it or adjust the column configuration to his needs (Pic 5)
Add new column - user can add a new column
Add new column - user can add a new column, action displayed only if there are no columns defined
Save action might fail if the retrospective name will no be defined, there is no column defined or one of the column doesn’t have name defined
Retrospective actions
When the retrospective is defined all team members can join to the meeting and participate by creating new cards, voting on the others cards ( created by the team members).
The meeting can be performed both ways: online - when all team members connecting to the meeting at the same time, or offline, each team member is opening the refinement on his local time zone, put some notes, voting.
User can join to the retrospective by pressing the title (1) or using the action number (4)
In addition, the retrospective owner ( user who creates the configuration) can execute the following actions
Deleting the configuration - (2)
Changing the configuration ( changing the title, columns definition) - (3)
Additional information
The retrospective configuration view contains also the following information
The owner who created the configuration (5)
The list of the issues created from the retrospective cards as a links - (6)
Refinement board
TBD