Rotate Retrospective Templates

Rotate Retrospective Templates

Team engagement drops if the team is stuck in a repetitive cycle

Established processes are good, but people get bored of doing the same thing over and over🤷‍♂️

Teams usually use retrospectives to review their sprint. That's what we've been told to do. If you are looking to increase your team engagement, it's worth exploring what else you can do.

Use a variety of retrospective templates to focus on different aspects of team experience

It's common in the industry to switch between "themes" like "Start, Stop, Continue", "Mad, Sad, Glad". This is good, but it's merely a playful decoration. We are talking about something much bigger.

You can prepare data and templates to address multiple aspects of your team life. In example:

Health Check Retrospective

Make a deep dive into health check data you collected over the past quarter. Discuss persistent and recurring issues.

Product Retrospective

Review your user feedback, your own ideas, and your backlog.

Tooling Retrospective

Review what your team is using. Share best practices and new findings.

Technical Retrospective

Review and discuss your technical debt, it's impact on your product success, and ways you could improve on it.

Coupled Team Retrospective

If you are working closely with another team, run a joint retrospective to improve the collaboration experience.

Process Retrospective

Question your established processes to see if they still make sense or if there is space for improvement.

Most importantly, don't be limited in structure and format. Use this allocated time to solve any team issues, in any area of the space.

Select retrospective formats and cadence that makes sense to your team.

Improve team engagement and meeting outcomes

You get a focused agenda and a variety. A higher team engagement and more value from your retros:

🕵️‍♀️ Focused agenda structures your discussion

Dive deep into issues, not just scraping the surface.

👩‍🎓 Variety of retro experiences

Your team will not get bored since each rotation can cover a one or two-month cycle. As a bonus, your team will focus on various aspects of your work, building higher trust and collaboration between professionals in your cross-functional team.

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