Five steps to creating your own retrospective

• Welcome everyone.
• Create a safe space (Honesty is required, no blame culture).
• Set a small fun activity to get people engaged early.
• Get people to talk in the first 5 minutes to help increase interaction in your retro.
• Gain a feel of the teams mood before starting your retro.
• Set a time box for this stage

• Time to help people remember and create a shared view of information.
• Think in advance if you want to focus on a theme for the retro (communication, trust, fun, waste).
• Create a template to gather data in advance.
• Encourage participation but don't force it.
• Set a time box for this stage.

• Get the data into groups or themes.
• Review the data as a group.
• Discuss why did these things happen.
• Ask what else could have happened.
• Identify any patterns.
• Ensuring everyone gets their chance to speak.
• Set a time box for this stage.

•  Ask everyone to vote on the group or theme they would like to see an action for (3 votes each).
• Discuss the actions together.
• Create achievable actions to complete in the next sprint        (max 3).
• Ensure each action has an owner.
• Set a time box for this stage.

•  Thank everyone for attending the retrospective.
• Remind action owners they are responsible to complete their actions before the next retrospective.
• Ask people to rate the retro to help you learn how to improve for future retrospectives.

This information is all available in the PDF document below for you to download and print for your own use. 

We hope you find it helpful.