Resources on Retrospectives

Hindsight Retros are hardly the first to write about the practice of retrospectives or, as they’re sometimes called, postmortems. We’d like to share some of the best references we’ve run across, for anybody who wants to dig into the broader world of retrospectives.

If you have a good link you’d like to share with us, email it to info@hindsightretros.com!

Articles

• Blameless Postmortems and a Just Culture - John Allspaw

• Postmortem Culture: Learning from Failure - Google

• Strategies for Learning from Failure - Harvard Business Review

• Want to Thrive? First, Learn to Fail - New York Times

Books

• SRE Book: Postmortem Culture: Learning from Failure - Sue Lueder and John Lunney

• SRE Workbook: Postmortem Culture: Learning from Failure - Daniel Rogers, Murali Suriar, Sue Lueder, Pranjal Deo, and Divya Sudhakar

• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - James Clear

• Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Atul Gawande

• Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well - Douglas Stone and Shiela Heen

• Radical Candor - Kim Scott

Audio and Video

• Shape of Stories (the inspiration for our logo) - Kurt Vonnegut

• How to Motivate Ourselves to Change Behavior - Dr. Tali Sharot

• How a space can improve (or destroy) your life - Struthless

• Fail Better With David Duchovny (podcast)

• Captain Hindsight - Southpark