Retrospective

The Start Stop Continue pizza retrospective The start, stop, continue retrospective format can be used on two ways: Focus on the last sprint Focus on the team’s way of working in general, or over a longer period of time This format allows the team to think about what is going well, the things that might […]

The Dark Side retrospective The Pink Floyd retrospective (dark side retrospective) focusses on three aspects of the sprint: what didn’t go well, what went well, and which ideas to we have to make things better (or try new things).  The Icebreaker The icebreaker used in this template is the happiness index. Ask every participant to

The Scrum Master retrospective The goal of this format is to enable a team discussion around the tasks, responsibilities and expectations that the team sees for the Scrum Master. It also gives the team the chance to express what they need in their Scrum Master. The format can easily be tweaked around any other type

The movie sprint retrospective This format can be used for a sprint retrospective, in the theme of movies. The structure behind this format is the same as “what went well”, “what didn’t go too well”, and “what can we do try or do differently next time”. If you have movie enthusiasts in your team, this

Retrospective about the sprint progression This retrospective focusses on the progression within the sprint, and how the team experienced. What’s the difference between the start- and the end of the sprint? Did the team start off with everything going well but rushing towards the end of the sprint to get everything finished? Or did they

Cats and dogs retrospective (went well & improve) This is a retrospective format suitable for teams that have pets, or like cats and/dogs in general. The actual format is the known “what went well” and “what can we improve”, with some pictures and memes added to it to make it playful. This template can be

Christmas Retrospective This Christmas Retrospective can be used at the end of the year to reflect on the past year. Or, alternatively, it can also be used as a regular retrospective during the Christmas period.  The Icebreaker The suggested icebreaker for this retrospective is having everybody share (a picture) about their favourite Christmas tradition. If

Went well, challenges and ideas This is a retrospective format that allows the team to reflect on the things that went well, the challenges and any new ideas that the team would like to try. It’s a basic retrospective format that can be used after a sprint-, release- or project retrospective. The Icebreaker The suggested

Mario Kart retrospective The Mario Kart is a fun retrospective format that allowed teams to focus on the things that are empowering them, slowing them down, but also things they wish would be possible or exist. It’s a combination of a retrospective and a futurespective. The Icebreaker This retrospective format does not have a specific

The “Build your own Scrum Master” retrospective format was initially made by Carsten Lützen: Build Your Own Scrum Master with Carsten Lützen – YouTube. Jan-Willen Rutten made a modification by adding a 4th category to it. You can read the full explenation of the format on this post from Jan-Willem: (3) How to: Build Your