FLAT is a great activity for a closure of a program of work. You should run it to bring attention...
Problems & Actions provides a quick way to brainstorm and select ideas and actions for solving problems affecting the...
Error Conversation helps the team identify errors, understand their nature and have a productive conversation about them. It is...
Well, Not So Well, New Ideas is commonly used to bring conversations about the positive notes, the improvements and...
Easy As Pie is a good retrospective activity to look for improvements, to apologize for personal mistakes, to present...
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a retrospective activity commonly used to boost conversations about improvements. ...
Open the Box fosters innovation and challenges the current activities performed by the team. Running the activity: Start by...
The 3Ls is a great data gathering activity, especially for retrospectives for a longer period of time. Running...
Three Little Pigs is a fun retrospective activity that uses the Three Little Pigs story to foster a conversation...
The LEGO® retrospective is a fun and stimulating activity that fosters a group conversation about feelings and future directions....
Pleasure and Gain is great for talking about all work-related things and how they affect each participant (in relation...
The Marginal Gains instigate the participants to look for quick wins, the little things that could easily be done,...
The Success Criteria for a team should be brief, succinct, with clearly defined intentions, target outcome, and conditions for...
Known Issues is a focused retrospective activity for issues that are already known. It is very useful for situations...
The CAPT is an interesting retrospective activity that relates data gathering to people’s anxiety and confidence levels. Running...
Anchors and Engine is a simple activity for helping the team identify things that make them move faster and...
Hot-air Balloon is a simple activity for helping the team identify things that makes them move faster, and things...
Speed Car is a simple activity for helping the team identify things that make them move faster, and things...
Peaks and Valleys Timeline provides a simple visual language for sharing individual views on the ups and downs for...
WWW is a great data gathering activity for retrospectives, guiding the discussion to team practices. Running the activity:...
FLAP is a great project/phase postmortem activity. You should run it as close to the end of a project/phase...
Dealing with Failure is an application of FMEA, a design tool used to systematically analyze postulated failures and identify actions...
Small starfish is a adaptation of the starfish retrospective activity. The Small starfish canvas is split into 3 areas...
The 4Ls is a great data gathering activity for recurring retrospectives. The Ls stand for: liked, learned, lacked, and...
KALM is a retrospective activity that fosters the conversation about current activities and their perceived value. It helps team...
Lessons Learned is a great retrospective activity for analyzing an event or a period of time and looking at...
Repeat/Avoid is a simple and effective data-gathering activity. It is based on two very specific questions: What to repeat?...
DAKI is a great data-gathering activity to foster the thinking around practices and the value the team gets from...
Empathy Snap on Big Hitter Moments is a great activity that gets participants guessing each other’s big hitter moments....
The Story of a Story targets process improvement by analyzing an item’s execution path (its story). We have used...
Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down, New Ideas and Acknowledgement is great for bringing up new ideas and for acknowledging people...
Timeline Driven by Feelings is a great retrospective activity to get the team thinking about events on a timeframe,...
Timeline Driven by Data is a great activity to get the team recollecting on events in a timeframe, with...
Starfish is a great data-gathering activity to foster the thinking around practices and the value the team gets from...