Retrospective

The team that doesn't reflect doesn't improve. Retrospectives close the feedback loop.

Context

Retrospective is the skill that completes the lifecycle loop. It feeds insights from operations and evolution back into discovery, making the next cycle better than the last. Without it, teams repeat the same mistakes and miss improvement opportunities.

In a lifecycle-aware system, a retrospective is not a generic feelings exercise. It must turn concrete evidence from postmortems, reviews, and delivery outcomes into a small number of changes the team will actually route back through intake and planning.

Inputs

• incident-timeline -- produced by the preceding skill in the lifecycle
• postmortem-report -- produced by the preceding skill in the lifecycle
• review-report -- produced by the preceding skill in the lifecycle

Process

Step 1: Set the Stage (5 min)