The retrospective is a method used in "Scrum"-Projects. The software development team meets regularly (but not necessarily after every Sprint) to reflect: What went well? What can we do better? What do we plan to do as "action items" for the next sprint?

Here's a useful freeware tool to perform such retrospectives in an Agile Remote Team (i.e.: the team is spread over several locations): funretro.io

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The author is a manager in the software industry with international expertise: Authorized officer at one of the large consulting firms - Responsible for setting up an IT development center at the Bangalore offshore location - Director M&A at a software company in Berlin.