Retrospectives are great! It’s a simple and structured methodology to critically assess the most recent performance in a certain period of time. Developers know it, and good scrum teams keep on improving with retrospectives to become better and better. According to the Scrum guidelines, a retrospective typically answers the following questions: What went well? What could be improved? What will we commit to improve in the next sprint? When doing retrospectives on a regular basis (like any good scrum team will do) continuous improvement is part of the process!

Learning is awesome! Learning something new has so many benefits I can’t even list them all. First and foremost you grow personally. Learning teaches you to deal with setbacks and successes, fosters your interest in various topics and trains your willpower and endurance. From a social perspective learning (and mastering) a skill enables you to be of value to others, makes you an interesting person to talk to (and learn from!