https://www.secdev.uk/blog/tags/retrospectives/ Recent content in Retrospectives on guy@secdev.uk Hugo en-gb Guy Dixon | guy@secdev.uk Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.secdev.uk/blog/leadership/3.7-running-effective-retrospectives/ Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.secdev.uk/blog/leadership/3.7-running-effective-retrospectives/ <p>Retrospectives should be the engine of continuous improvement. In practice, they&rsquo;re often the meeting everyone tolerates but nobody values, a ritual performed out of obligation rather than conviction, producing sticky notes that get photographed and forgotten.</p> <p>I&rsquo;ve run hundreds of retrospectives over the years, and I&rsquo;ve wasted more of them than I&rsquo;d like to admit. The ones that worked had a few things in common. The ones that didn&rsquo;t were all failing in the same ways.</p>