Activities and ideas for making agile retrospectives more engaging
The Isn’t that crazy energizer is amazing for getting people talking and collaboratively creating a story (usually a funny one). It fosters engagement and everyone participation while being very easy to[…]
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a retrospective activity commonly used to boost conversations about improvements. Step by step Start by playing the The Good, the Bad and[…]
Guess my favorite song is a great team building activity to get people to know a little more about each other. Running the activity: Give one post-it and a sharpie[…]
This activity foster innovation and challenges the current activities performed by the team. Running the activity: 1. Start by reading the following quote “The world as we have created it[…]
The 3Ls is a great data gathering activity which emphasizes learning, one of the 3 Ls. The other Ls stand for: liked, and lacked. Running the activity: Split the canvas[…]
The Three Little Pigs is a fun retrospective activity that uses the Three Little Pigs story to foster a conversation about improvements for getting our structures more solid. Running the[…]
The LEGO® retrospective is a fun and stimulating activity that fosters a group conversation about feelings and future directions. Running the activity Place the LEGO® box at the center of[…]
Telos thinking is a futurespective activity to help a team understand, verbalize and affirm their ultimate goal. It is inspired on Ari Wallach´s Ted Talk 3 ways to plan for[…]
In my shoes is a team building activity to create strong bond between people, while exercising empathy and active listening skills. Running the activity 1. Divide the participants in two[…]
The Into the Graph Feasible x Useful activity provides a fast way to prioritize a list of proposed ideas or actions. By relatively comparing levels of feasibility and how useful[…]
The Pleasure and Gain activity is great for talking about all work related things and how does if affects each participant (in relation to being pleasant or not), and how[…]
SWOT is a team building that helps team members to better understand each others strengths and weaknesses, as well as find opportunities and threats that they might face together. It[…]
The roles we play is a team building activity to trigger a conversation about all the roles we play in our lives. It is especially useful for a diverse group[…]
This checkin activity enables the facilitator to verify if he could carry the following activities by asking the participants to read their own notes. At times, some participants wants to[…]
The marginal gains instigate the participants to look for quick wins, the little things that could easily be done, adding up to great improvements. It is a retrospective activity for[…]
The Effort and Pain is a filtering activity to help the participants prioritize the retrospective items to be worked on. Running the activity 1.Draw the Effort versus pain graph with[…]
The hero’s journey is a futurespective activity to help describing a story a team is pursuing. It is inspired on Joseph Campbell’s book. Running the activity 1. Explain the intent of[…]
The following sequence was used by a team of 12 people seeking alignment and a few prioritized actionable items for a process improvement. The lessons learned and accomplishments were essential[…]
The activity Is – Is not – Does – Does not helps to define a team. Sometimes, it’s easier to describe something by telling what this thing is not or[…]
Understanding the group knowledge is a team building activity that helps the team understanding the group knowledge and abilities, as well as the intentions and actions towards increasing it. Running[…]
