A Study on Agile Retrospective Practices in the Software Industry of Pakistan: An Examination of Real-World Applications

Abstract

In every industry manual working process is ending and moving to the software technology. Rapid change in the technology software development organization need to update and improve their development process. In software programming techniques agile practices focus on the client comfort and responsive to change. Retrospective practices are important activities for process improvement in Agile software development as they increase the collaboration between the team members. With the help of these retrospective practices, challenges and problem in the development process are identified and suitable solutions are provided. Team velocity are managed according to the progress of the previous sprint. Retrospective practices are initially difficult for new team and take about 3-5 meeting to make mindset on the retrospective meeting. In this research a case study is conducted to analyze whether retrospective practices are followed by the Pakistani software industry. Our analysis shows that retrospective practices are followed by the Pakistani software industry for process improvement but they have both positive and negative impact on the software quality and improvement of the team. In Pakistani industry, various retrospective practices are followed according to software quality requirements but mostly teams are satisfied by the practices followed in their teams.