About the work
Retrospective
About the work
About the work is a retrospective activity to help detect the improvements and clarify the factors driving or blocking...
FLAT: Future direction, Lessons learned, Accomplishments and Thank you
Retrospective
FLAT: Future direction, Lessons learned, Accomplishments and Thank you
FLAT is a great activity for a closure of a program of work. You should run it to bring attention...
Problems & Actions
Retrospective
Problems & Actions
Problems & Actions provides a quick way to brainstorm and select ideas and actions for solving problems affecting the...
Error conversation
Retrospective
Error conversation
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
Retrospective
Well, Not so well, New ideas
Well, Not So Well, New Ideas is commonly used to bring conversations about the positive notes, the improvements and...
Easy As Pie
Retrospective
Easy As Pie
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
Retrospective
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a retrospective activity commonly used to boost conversations about improvements. ...
Open the box
Retrospective
Open the box
Open the Box fosters innovation and challenges the current activities performed by the team. Running the activity: Start by...
The 3 Ls: Liked, Learned, Lacked
Retrospective
The 3 Ls: Liked, Learned, Lacked
The 3Ls is a great data gathering activity, especially for retrospectives for a longer period of time. Running...
Three Little Pigs
Retrospective
Three Little Pigs
Three Little Pigs is a fun retrospective activity that uses the Three Little Pigs story to foster a conversation...
LEGO® retrospective
Retrospective
LEGO® retrospective
The LEGO® retrospective is a fun and stimulating activity that fosters a group conversation about feelings and future directions....
Pleasure and Gain
Retrospective
Pleasure and Gain
Pleasure and Gain is great for talking about all work-related things and how they affect each participant (in relation...
Marginal Gains
Retrospective
Marginal Gains
The Marginal Gains instigate the participants to look for quick wins, the little things that could easily be done,...
Success Criteria
Retrospective
Success Criteria
The Success Criteria for a team should be brief, succinct, with clearly defined intentions, target outcome, and conditions for...
Known Issues
Retrospective
Known Issues
Known Issues is a focused retrospective activity for issues that are already known. It is very useful for situations...
The CAPT activity – Confident or Aprehansive X People or Tech
Retrospective
The CAPT activity – Confident or Aprehansive X People or Tech
The CAPT is an interesting retrospective activity that relates data gathering to people’s anxiety and confidence levels. Running...
Anchors and Engine
Retrospective
Anchors and Engine
Anchors and Engine is a simple activity for helping the team identify things that make them move faster and...
Hot-air Balloon
Retrospective
Hot-air Balloon
Hot-air Balloon is a simple activity for helping the team identify things that makes them move faster, and things...
Speed Car
Retrospective
Speed Car
Speed Car is a simple activity for helping the team identify things that make them move faster, and things...
The Peaks and Valleys Timeline
Retrospective
The Peaks and Valleys Timeline
Peaks and Valleys Timeline provides a simple visual language for sharing individual views on the ups and downs for...
WWW: Worked well, kinda Worked, didn’t Work
Retrospective
WWW: Worked well, kinda Worked, didn’t Work
WWW is a great data gathering activity for retrospectives, guiding the discussion to team practices. Running the activity:...
FLAP: Future direction, Lessons learned, Accomplishments and Problem areas
Retrospective
FLAP: Future direction, Lessons learned, Accomplishments and Problem areas
FLAP is a great project/phase postmortem activity. You should run it as close to the end of a project/phase...
Dealing with Failure – FMEA
Retrospective
Dealing with Failure – FMEA
Dealing with Failure is an application of FMEA, a design tool used to systematically analyze postulated failures and identify actions...
Small starfish
Retrospective
Small starfish
Small starfish is a adaptation of the starfish retrospective activity. The Small starfish canvas is split into 3 areas...
4 Ls: Liked – Learned – Lacked – Longed For
Retrospective
4 Ls: Liked – Learned – Lacked – Longed For
The 4Ls is a great data gathering activity for recurring retrospectives. The Ls stand for: liked, learned, lacked, and...
KALM – Keep, Add, More, Less
Retrospective
KALM – Keep, Add, More, Less
KALM is a retrospective activity that fosters the conversation about current activities and their perceived value. It helps team...
Lessons learned quadrants (planning vs success)
Retrospective
Lessons learned quadrants (planning vs success)
Lessons Learned is a great retrospective activity for analyzing an event or a period of time and looking at...
Repeat/Avoid
Retrospective
Repeat/Avoid
Repeat/Avoid is a simple and effective data-gathering activity. It is based on two very specific questions: What to repeat?...
DAKI – drop, add, keep, improve
Retrospective
DAKI – drop, add, keep, improve
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
Retrospective
Empathy snap on big hitter moments
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
Retrospective
The Story of a Story
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
Retrospective
Thumbs up, thumbs down, new ideas and acknowledgement
Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down, New Ideas and Acknowledgement is great for bringing up new ideas and for acknowledging people...
Timeline driven by feelings
Retrospective
Timeline driven by feelings
Timeline Driven by Feelings is a great retrospective activity to get the team thinking about events on a timeframe,...
Timeline driven by data
Retrospective
Timeline driven by data
Timeline Driven by Data is a great activity to get the team recollecting on events in a timeframe, with...
Starfish
Retrospective
Starfish
Starfish is a great data-gathering activity to foster the thinking around practices and the value the team gets from...