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Agile Retrospective Template

An agile retrospective is a short, regular meeting for project teams to reflect on their most recent work, analyze processes, and identify improvements. It provides time for teams to celebrate successes, discuss issues, and agree on actions to implement in future work. Key elements of a retrospective include brainstorming ideas, grouping similar ideas, prioritizing the most important issues to address, and developing an action plan with goals and owners for identified improvements. The results are then shared with the team to guide their next stage of work.

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Agile Retrospective Template

An agile retrospective is a short, regular meeting for project teams to reflect on their most recent work, analyze processes, and identify improvements. It provides time for teams to celebrate successes, discuss issues, and agree on actions to implement in future work. Key elements of a retrospective include brainstorming ideas, grouping similar ideas, prioritizing the most important issues to address, and developing an action plan with goals and owners for identified improvements. The results are then shared with the team to guide their next stage of work.

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AGILE RETROSPECTIVE

What is an agile retrospective?

An agile retrospective is a short meeting for project teams to reflect on the most recent stage of their project, analyze
their processes, and identify things they can do better moving forward. Regular agile retrospective meetings support
constant learning and improvement over the life cycle of the project.

Time frame: 30 Min

Why do an agile retrospective?

Regular agile retrospectives are a cheap, fast, and effective way for project teams to improve continuously. They:

1. Provide dedicated time to reflect, analyze, and decide on how to do things better.
2. Provide a forum to celebrate success and progress.
3. Improve team communications and create an opportunity to “clear the air.”
4. Address issues regularly, eliminating problems sooner rather than later.
5. Bring everyone up to speed on current challenges and goals.
6. Empower teams to solve problems, develop solutions, and own their decisions.
7. Provide an opportunity to reach consensus on future actions moving forward.
8. Offer a great opportunity for team building and energizing the team.

Agile Retrospective Template


How to define various stages of retrospective?

Stage Description
Scene Setting Revisit the “Prime Directive” to lay the ground rules and
establish expectations for behavior during the meeting.

Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly


believe that everyone did the best job they could, given
what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the
resources available, and the situation at hand.

Ensure everyone knows who’s attending and what their


role is, especially if not everyone is in the same location.
Restate the objectives of the whole project and how it
aligns and contributes to the organization.

Look at ideas and review progress on actions generated


in previous Agile Retrospective meetings and decide
which of those to include in this session.

Define the timeframe and the focus for this session.


Brainstorm Agile Retrospective ideas may be gathered individually or
as a group using a whiteboard, sticky notes, Google Docs,
or a specialized online collaboration tool such as
Confluence.

Start by capturing ideas for “What went well?” and then


move onto the other three quadrants in order. Each idea
should be made visible to everyone, and discussed,
clarified, and challenged where necessary, to ensure all
participants have a shared understanding.

It’s important to drill down to the root cause of each idea


and support it with data where possible. That includes
things that went well and those which didn’t.
Group Organize the ideas by removing duplication, combining
those which are thematically similar, and discarding any
which aren’t in scope.

The final statements should be specific and actionable,


rather than just general opinion.
Prioritize Now the agile retrospective template is fully populated,
the team votes on which ideas provide greatest
opportunity for improvement and therefore should be
actioned.
The usual method of voting is to give each team member
between one and five votes which they allocate to those
issues they feel are the most critical to address. The
result is a visual indication of the team’s priorities.
Action Plan Develop solutions for priority issues and identify what
actions to take. The key to this step is to focus on a few
critical activities that can be accomplished with the
resources available, rather than try and solve everything
all at once.

It’s important to assign measurable goals or success


criteria to each action so progress can be assessed in
subsequent meetings.
Share Distribute the final report on the session with the
associated action plan to the team members. Ensure all
participants are clear on what needs to happen and by
when. This report provides the roadmap for the next
stage of the project and a starting point for the next
retrospective.

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