Chances are, you’ve already heard quite a bit about scrum retrospectives.
However, not all of them might work or not work for your team.
If you want to head off in the right direction, here you will find the most popular scrum retro templates for Excel and Google Sheets to choose from.
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The best free scrum retro templates on the web right now
Sprint Retrospective Template
What Is A Sprint Retrospective?
The sprint retrospective is a meeting held at the end of every sprint after the sprint review meeting. The team and ScrumMaster meet to discuss what went well and what to improve in the next sprint. The Scrum Master has the role of facilitator, whereas the product owner does not attend this meeting. The sprint review looks at what the team is building, whereas the retrospective looks at how they are building it.
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Start Stop Continue Retrospective Template
What Is A Start Stop Continue Retrospective?
Review your team’s past actions at the end of an agile sprint. Determine which activities and behaviors are worth starting, stopping, or continuing.
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Mad Sad Glad Retrospective Template
What Is A Mad Sad Glad Retrospective?
Explore your team member’s feelings and emotions about the work they’ve done after the last agile sprint.
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What So What Now What Retrospective Template
What Is A What, So What, Now What Retrospective?
The What/So What/Now What retrospective takes inspiration from the Ladder of Inference by Chris Argyris and Peter Senge. This decision-making model describes how people take actions -often unconsciously- by jumping up a ladder of conclusions drawn from observable data.
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4Ls Retrospective Template
What Is A 4Ls Retrospective?
The 4 Ls retrospective is a guide to a simplified version of a traditional Scrum retrospective. After a sprint, ask your team to review its work and use what learned to improve.
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Sailboat Retrospective Template
About the Sailboat Retrospective
GOOD FOR: teams who are veering off-course, to keep a goal in sight
The Sailboat Technique (also known as the Sailboat Agile Exercise) uses a sailing boat metaphor to help your team visualize their goals and how they get there.
Create your own sailboat retrospective
You imagine that your team is on a boat together, headed toward an island, but your team members must navigate helpful winds, try not to be slowed by anchors, and avoid rocks along the way.
With a sailboat retrospective, your teammates brainstorm and discuss their feedback onto sticky notes (virtual or physical) in four categories, zooming in from the overall team goal to the current sprint:
- Destination (Goal/Vision) – where does the team want to be and what’s their vision?
- Wind (Drivers) – what’s helping your team move in the direction of your destination?
- Anchor (Bottlenecks) – what’s holding the team back?
- Rocks (Threats) – what are some risks that your team might encounter?
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Asynchronous Retrospective Template
About the Asynchronous Retrospective
GOOD FOR: remote or distributed teams located in different time zones, improve team communication
An asynchronous retrospective is a type of lessons learned meeting that doesn’t take place synchronously or in real-time. Team members have more time to reflect and are free to contribute and discuss in their own time without meetings or video conferences.
Create your own async retrospective
- Synchronous communication: takes place in real-time. It happens when you write or speak to other people with the mutual expectation of immediate response (e.g., phone calls.)
- Asynchronous communication: takes place in your time. Whenever you send a message – audio, video, or written – not expecting an immediate response (e.g., emails.)
To run a sprint retrospective asynchronously, you take what’s normally a 30 min or 1-hour retrospective, and extend it throughout 2-3 days.
It is important that you set a timer to keep the meeting moving, though. A retrospective meeting, sync or async, reviews the activities of the previous sprint to gather action items useful for the next one. If it takes a week or more, your technical debt might skyrocket. For an async retrospective, communicate clear timeframes to your teammates. Open the offline retrospective at the start of the sprint. Group and vote at the end of the sprint. Follow-up by discussing as a team for a couple of days more, to distribute tasks to the action items that emerged.
Ask your team the following questions:
- Fabulous – what went well during the last sprint?
- Not so fabulous – what didn’t go so well?
- Experiments/actions – identify possible experiment ideas and action ideas the team can run to target items that were or were not fabulous (ideas, not commitments).
Reference: http://www.agileforall.com/2014/10/the-real-baseline-agile-retrospective-format/
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Car Brand Retrospective Template
About the Car Brand Retrospective
GOOD FOR: teams who are new to each other, for focusing on the problem at hand
The Car Brand exercise is a simple but productive way for a team to identify problems with fun, without getting too anxious.
Create your own car brand retrospective
When teams do an iteration retrospective for the first time, they might not be comfortable showing emotions and thoughts openly. The Car Brands retrospective allows people to express how they feel about the last sprint via a car brand metaphor, avoiding dealing openly with the F word.
Ask your team to think back about the last sprint and how they feel it went. Then, give team members two or three minutes to think about a car brand that would best describe it (e.g., Maserati vs. Fiat vs. old banger). Invite your team members to talk about why they choose their car brand.
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Starfish Retrospective Template
About the Starfish Retrospective
GOOD FOR: get the team out of its comfort zone after a few retrospectives have occurred.
After several sprints, a retrospective meeting can lose effectiveness. A starfish activity keeps the team engaged while slightly changing the format of a retrospective.
Create your own starfish retrospective
Two new categories – “More of” and “Less of” – enrich a traditional Start-Stop-Continue agile retrospective, to help a team shift focus from issues to solutions. Indeed, like a Starfish doodle, this scrum retrospective template has five tentacles. Each one of them gets the team an idea of what went well and what the team could improve during the next sprint or project.
Ask the team members to brainstorm any activity/idea that the team should start doing, do more, keep doing, do less, and stop doing in the next iteration.
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Postmortem Retrospective Template
What Is A Postmortem Retrospective?
The 4 Ls retrospective is a guide to a simplified version of a traditional Scrum retrospective. After a sprint, ask your team to review its work and use what learned to improve.
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Working and Stuck Retrospective Template
What Is A Working and Stuck Retrospective?
The 4 Ls retrospective is a guide to a simplified version of a traditional Scrum retrospective. After a sprint, ask your team to review its work and use what learned to improve.
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Drop Add Keep Improve (DAKI) Retrospective Template
What Is A Drop Add Keep Improve (DAKI) Retrospective?
The 4 Ls retrospective is a guide to a simplified version of a traditional Scrum retrospective. After a sprint, ask your team to review its work and use what learned to improve.
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Mountain Climber Retrospective Template
What Is A Mountain Climber Retrospective?
The 4 Ls retrospective is a guide to a simplified version of a traditional Scrum retrospective. After a sprint, ask your team to review its work and use what learned to improve.
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Three Little Pigs Retrospective Template
What Is A Three Little Pigs Retrospective?
The 4 Ls retrospective is a guide to a simplified version of a traditional Scrum retrospective. After a sprint, ask your team to review its work and use what learned to improve.
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Winning Streak Retrospective Template
What Is A Winning Streak Retrospective?
The 4 Ls retrospective is a guide to a simplified version of a traditional Scrum retrospective. After a sprint, ask your team to review its work and use what learned to improve.
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What Went Well Retrospective Template
What Is A What Went Well Retrospective?
The 4 Ls retrospective is a guide to a simplified version of a traditional Scrum retrospective. After a sprint, ask your team to review its work and use what learned to improve.
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Lean Coffee Retrospective Template
What Is A Lean Coffee Retrospective?
The 4 Ls retrospective is a guide to a simplified version of a traditional Scrum retrospective. After a sprint, ask your team to review its work and use what learned to improve.
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Energy Levels Retrospective Template
What Is A Energy Levels Retrospective?
The 4 Ls retrospective is a guide to a simplified version of a traditional Scrum retrospective. After a sprint, ask your team to review its work and use what learned to improve.
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Anchors and Engines Retrospective Template
What Is A Anchors and Engines Retrospective?
The 4 Ls retrospective is a guide to a simplified version of a traditional Scrum retrospective. After a sprint, ask your team to review its work and use what learned to improve.
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FLAP Retrospective Template
What Is A FLAP Retrospective?
The 4 Ls retrospective is a guide to a simplified version of a traditional Scrum retrospective. After a sprint, ask your team to review its work and use what learned to improve.
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WRAP Retrospective Template
What Is A WRAP Retrospective?
The 4 Ls retrospective is a guide to a simplified version of a traditional Scrum retrospective. After a sprint, ask your team to review its work and use what learned to improve.
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