A quantitative experiment: inter-team retrospectives in scaled agile programs

Despite the current popularity agile project management and scaling such frameworks, there is little academic research inquiring how to scale agile frameworks to be successful at the program level. Retrospectives, are understood to play an important role in attempts to successfully adjust scaled-up project frameworks. This research studies the particular impact of such meetings as a tool to scale a known success factor from agile projects and address current gaps highlighted in recent program management literature. To better understand the impact of retrospectives, a quantitative experiment, to inquire how program value is accomplished with inter-team retrospectives, is conducted. With the proposed research design, we intend to test if there is a measurable impact on program success and efficiency by introducing inter-team retrospectives based on current approaches from the literature. This will allow to better understand and further develop the retrospective meeting design on an inter-team level within scale agile programs.