Purpose

The Improve phase closes the sprint cycle with reflection and optimization. It covers retrospectives, process improvement planning, team health monitoring, velocity trend analysis, and post-mortems for significant incidents.

Skills

Retrospective

/project-management-retrospective <project>

Facilitates a sprint retrospective — captures what went well, what didn't, and actionable improvements. Uses structured formats like Start/Stop/Continue.

Output: Retro findings, action items, improvement backlog → .singularskills/project-management/<project>/04-improve.md

Process Improvement

/project-management-process-improvement <project>

Analyzes recurring pain points across sprints and proposes process changes. Tracks improvement experiments and their outcomes.

Output: Pain point analysis, improvement proposals, experiment tracking → .singularskills/project-management/<project>/04-improve.md

Team Health

/project-management-team-health <project>

Assesses team health across dimensions like psychological safety, workload balance, skill development, and collaboration quality.

Output: Team health scorecard, trend analysis, recommended actions → .singularskills/project-management/<project>/04-improve.md

Velocity Analysis

/project-management-velocity-analysis <project>

Analyzes velocity trends over multiple sprints. Identifies patterns, predicts future capacity, and flags anomalies.

Output: Velocity trend chart, capacity forecast, anomaly flags → .singularskills/project-management/<project>/04-improve.md

Post-mortem

/project-management-post-mortem <project>

Conducts a blameless post-mortem for significant incidents or failures. Documents timeline, root causes, contributing factors, and preventive actions.

Output: Incident timeline, root cause analysis, preventive actions → .singularskills/project-management/<project>/04-improve.md

After Improve

After Improve, see Utility Skills for cross-phase tools like risk assessment, decision logging, and capacity planning.

Phase 4: Improve