agentflow-retro

Retrospective — Continuous Improvement

Triggered every 10 completed User Stories (tracked in project memory).

When to Run

• Retro counter reaches 10 completed User Stories
• Either party requests: "Let's do a retro"
• After a significant incident or quality issue

Counter tracks US completions only — spikes, bugs, and tooling tasks don't count.

Retro Template

## Retro -- [date] -- after story N

### What worked well
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### Friction / slowdowns
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### Bugfix quality (were root causes documented?)
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### Memory + tooling gaps
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### Inner loop robustness
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### Quality gate effectiveness
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### Actionable items
- [ ] (add to BACKLOG#Ideation or update project rules)

Process

1. Gather data — review DONE-Today and archives since last retro
2. Walk each section — be specific, reference actual tasks/commits
3. Identify patterns — what keeps recurring?
4. Generate actionable items — each must be concrete and assignable:
   • Process improvements -> update project CLAUDE.md rules
   • Tool gaps -> add to BACKLOG#Ideation
   • Anti-patterns -> add to KNOWN_PATTERNS.md
5. Reset counter — set retro_stories_since_last: 0 in project memory

Scope

The retro covers:

• Workflow friction and cycle time
• Bugfixing approach quality (were root causes documented?)
• Memory file usefulness
• Inner/outer loop robustness
• Tooling gaps
• Quality gate effectiveness

Output

• Actionable items added to BACKLOG#Ideation
• Rule updates applied to project CLAUDE.md
• New anti-patterns added to KNOWN_PATTERNS.md
• Counter reset in project memory