Happy New Year
While arbitrarily celebrating one part of the solar orbit over the other 364 may seem arbitrary, many cultures take this time to reflect on past success and future hope.
In Agile development, we should be taking the same ceremony throughout the delivery process. If you changed direction every sprint, you might wind up chasing your own tale; and if you never change direction, congratulations, you are in waterfall.
Retrospectives offer us individually and corporately a wonderful chance to pause and become positively aligned to our goals rather than reactively negatively aligned against our failures.
May 2024 be a bright and productive year; and may all your bugs be trivial and caught in development.