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Retrospective script - Sailboat
The purpose of this, and every retrospective, is to help us to improve by coming up with a few concrete improvement actions that we can complete / test / do until the next retrospective. Small, concrete actions are preferred before large lofty goals that we don’t reach anytime soon. There will be another retrospective in a few weeks.
This particular retrospective is a very visual way of finding our improvement actions. You will need a big piece of paper or preferrably a whiteboard. And some post-its.
This retrospective takes about 45 minutes
Preparations
You could do this as part of the retrospective but I find it will be sloppy and I get nervous doing it in front of people.
You could also print and use that as your template
- Draw a sailboat in the middle of the whiteboard
- Add wind to represent the things that push us on
- Add some rocks under the water to represent dangerous scary stuff that might sink us
- Add a deployed anchor that is holding / slowing us down
- Add a gazing sun that represents the things that we are appreciating
- Finally add an island the potential or
Review (5 min)
- Read the previous improvment actions
- Did we do them?
- If no - why not?
- If yes - what happened?
- What should we think about writing new action items?
Generate data (15 min)
- Point to the different parts of the drawing and explain what they represent
- Use the descriptions above
- or use this legend
- Boat - us, the team
- Wind - speeds us up
- Anchor - slows us down
- Rocks - risks
- Island - Opportunities
- Sun - Appreciations
- Ask the participants to add a post-it to whatever area they feel like
Gather insights (20 min)
- Ask the participants to add their post-its on the board and describe and clarify how they are thinking
- Once everyone is done - group the topics that belongs together
- Now discuss and come up with a few (max 2) action points
Close retrospective (2 min)
- Thank everyone for participating
- Do a fist-of-five vote for how good the retrospective was
- Ask participants to write, if the want, a post-it on what would make improve their rating
- Bring the action items to your mob station