Dron Khanna
ABSTRACT
The current trend shows that individuals gather into a team and initiate a software startup. The growth of software startups on professional, academic and university spin-offs level are growing in numbers. Team initiating a software startup is excessively focused on the developing a better software solution and delivering a prototype to its customer. Individuals exercising so many experiments to win the software development timeline, often fail to share their important work experience, difficulties while carrying out experiments and learning within the team. This study aims to address the problem of neglected experiential team learning in software startups. To do so, this research will focus on the agile reflective practice of retrospective meeting. Multiple case studies will be applied to this research to understand and analyze retrospective practice in software startups. Based on specific concepts and propositions we propose a conceptual framework for experiential team learning in software startups.
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