Metro Retro Templates

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Agree or Disagree icebreaker

A check-in activity to get people comfortable with expressing their opinion. This can be used as an icebreaker or as part of a retrospective.

Blank Board: Create a Template From Scratch

Build your own workshop activities to collaborate with your remote or hybrid team.

Bullseye!

A quick exercise to visualise team mood. This can be used as an icebreaker or a closing activity.

Planning & Estimation

Calendar – Monthly Planner

A monthly planner with three streams of work.

Coat of Arms

The Coat of Arms is a visual ‘get to know you’ activity, but this one comes with a twist.

Crazy 8’s

A Design Sprint technique for visual ideation – draw 8 ideas in 8 minutes!

Ways Of Working

Definition of Done

Create a Definition of Done to agree what ‘Done’ really means, and bring transparency to your team’s working processes.

Draw a Scene

An energizer activity asking the team to draw a scene together.

Draw your Sprint!

A picture is worth a thousand sticky notes. Draw your sprint and find the common themes.

Drop / Add / Keep / Improve

Alternative four-panel retrospective with alternative categories of Drop, Add, Keep and Remove.

Decision Making

Eisenhower Matrix

Classic 2×2 matrix helping you make decisions and prioritize tasks

Elephant in the Room

If you feel real issues are not being raised in your regular retrospectives, use the Elephant in the Room exercise to help the team open up.

Empathy Map

Use the Empathy Map to organize your findings when you are talking to your customers and capture feedback and conversations in an easy-to-use, tangible deliverable.

Energy Insights

Discover what drains or recharges the team energy, enabling reflection and making adjustments for improved efficiency and vitality!

Energy Levels

A battery-themed check in activity to gauge the team’s energy levels.

Explorer, Shopper, Vacationer, Prisoner

A short check-in activity to measure the team’s attitude to the meeting.

Decision Making

Feature Prioritisation Grid

Use this sequence of grids to prioritise features by comparing them against each other, using factors like feasibility and value to customer.

Decision Making

Five Whys

Use the Five Whys exercise to uncover the root cause of a problem.

Genie in a Bottle

Unleash some magic with the Genie in a Bottle retrospective. Use your three wishes wisely!

Glad / Mad / Sad

Straightforward retrospective exercise that asks teams to identify and discuss what makes them Glad, Mad and Sad.

Goal-Oriented Product Roadmap

The goal-oriented product roadmap is designed for creating products with Lean Startup or Scrum. Use to establish product goals, plan releases, and coordinate the development and launch of products.

Good / Bad / Start / Stop

Classic four-panel retrospective board with categories of Good, Bad, Start and Stop. Encourages a variety of ideas and actions.

Futurespectives

Graveyard of Gloom

Dive deep into potential pitfalls and brainstorm proactive solutions to ensure your project doesn’t end up as a tombstone in the graveyard of failed endeavors.

Health Check Thermometer

A simple thermometer gauge that can be used to quickly gather information about how people found the sprint. This template can be customised for a variety of uses.

Hero’s Journey

In the Hero’s Journey, you will recount your sprint as an epic tale. Share triumphs, challenges, and unexpected twists. May your stories shine as legendary heroes!

Hopes & Concerns

A quick warm up activity that encourages teams to discuss their Hopes & Concerns. Best run at the start of a workshop or period of work.

Futurespectives

Hopes & Concerns

A quick warm up activity that encourages teams to discuss their Hopes & Concerns. Best run at the start of a workshop or period of work.

I Like, I Wish

A simple retrospective that focuses on the positives, for both the past and the future.

I Like, I Wish, What If

A retrospective focused on positive changes and blue sky thinking. This format can also be used for collecting feedback.

Incident Post-Mortem

Evaluate the facts of an incident and what the team have learnt from the experience.

Ishakawa Diagram a.k.a Fishbone

Use the Fishbone exercise to brainstorm and identify the root causes of a problem.

Joy, Fear, Excitement!

Use these three powerful emotions to evaluate how your work makes you feel.

KALM – Keep, Add, Less, More

Reflect on how the team are delivering value and what could be improved

Keep, Problems, Try

Keep, Problems, Try is a simple retrospective exercise that gets the team to generate potential experiments for their next iteration.

Kudos Tree

Give a shout out to a colleague and share some positivity.

Lean Canvas

A popular activity from the Lean Startup methodology that helps teams create a product plan focusing on problems, solutions, metrics, etc.

Decision Making

Lean Coffee

Lean Coffee is an activity that provides a structure for discussion of multiple topics. Participants build an agenda of items to discuss, prioritize the agenda and then work through each topic one by one.

Decision Making

Lean Prioritization Matrix

A 2×2 matrix for prioritizing items by value and effort. Useful for product management and general decision making.

Liked / Learned / Lacked / Longed For

Liked / Learned / Lacked / Longed For is a popular four-panel retrospective that asks teams to feedback on the positives and negatives of a particular topic or activity.

Decision Making

Meeting Agenda

Make your own visual meeting agenda with this template

Decision Making

Mind Map

Use a mind map to capture and organize your ideas around a central theme

MoSCoW Prioritization

A classic method of prioritizing items into Must, Should, Could, and Won’t.

Niki Niko Calendar

Use the Niko Niko calendar to collect and visualise the team mood over time, then review the results together.

Planning & Estimation

Now – Next – Later Roadmap

The Now Next Later roadmap is a lean method of planning the initiatives that a product team wants to work on.

Now – Next – Later Roadmap

The Now Next Later roadmap is a lean method of planning the initiatives that a product team wants to work on.

Ways Of Working

OKRs

Use this template to brainstorm and set OKRs.

On The Radar

Use this radar template to collect and prioritize items or feedback across different topics, prioritizing the most important in the center.

Ways Of Working

One Page Test Plan

Use the One Page Test plan to clearly communicate the test plan for your sprint or project.

Open The Box

Open the Box looks at all the activities a team performs as part of it’s working processes and examines what changes should be made to improve team performance.

Planning & Estimation

Operational Task Planner

Use this collaborative template to plan what needs to be done before, during, and after an event, such as preparing a complex deployment or running a workshop.

Personas

Bring your personas to life.

Planning & Estimation

Planning Poker

In Planning Poker, the team use playing cards to help them estimate upcoming stories. Suitable for teams not integrated with Jira

Plus / Delta

A simple reflective exercise to generate constructive feedback.

Plus / Minus / Interesting

A simple retrospective that encourages critical thinking. Useful for retrospective sessions as well as decision making or brainstorming.

Pre-meeting questions

Use this template to collect information from your participants before a meeting, demo, or workshop.

Product Backlog

A Kanban style product backlog template that is based on the layout we used to manage the Metro Retro backlog.

Product Vision Board (extended)

The Product Vision Board helps you describe, visualise, and validate your product vision and strategy, and adds on sections to capture your business model ideas.

Product Vision Board (simple)

The Product Vision Board helps you describe, visualise, and validate your product vision and strategy.

Planning & Estimation

Project Swimlanes

A simple Swimlane diagram to visualise parallel streams of work.

Ways Of Working

RACI Matrix

Use this collaborative RACI Matrix to decide who does what!

Futurespectives

RAID Analysis

Classic planning technique that asks participants to identify Risks, Assumptions, Issues & Dependencies for an upcoming project or session.

Decision Making

RAID Analysis

Classic planning technique that asks participants to identify Risks, Assumptions, Issues & Dependencies for an upcoming project or session.

Risk-Taking Retro

Visualise how risk-taking the team are and identify areas to de-risk or to take more risks.

Rose, Thorn & Bud check-in

A simple but effective way to reflect on recent positive, negative and inspirational points.

ROTI: Feelings

Ask your participants how they feel after the meeting – hopefully better than when they started!

ROTI: Fist of Fives

Fist of Fives asks participants to rate the meeting value with a number of fingers.

ROTI: Meeting Value 1-5

A simple way to ask your participants how valuable the meeting was.

ROTI: Phones

Ask participants to rate the meeting by choosing a phone type.

ROTI: Star Ratings

Rate the meeting and the facilitator out of 5 stars, with an area for feedback.

ROTI: Treasure

Rate the value of the meeting in growing piles of treasure.

Ways Of Working

Scrum Values Assessment

The Scrum Values Assessment is a great way to assess the team’s agile values together and to decide the types of behaviour the team wants to practice, as well as the anti-patterns they want to avoid.

Simple Kanban

Classic Kanban board with Backlog, Todo, In Progress and Done. Great as an alternative to more complex tools for quick and easy task tracking.

Decision Making

Stakeholder Mapping

Identify each stakeholder and decide how to involve them in your project.

Start / Stop / Continue

Retrospective exercise that asks teams to share and discuss what the team should Start, Stop or Continue doing.

Story Mapping

Map the interactions with your product and split each step into user stories to build your product plan.

Decision Making

SWOT Analysis

Popular analysis technique that helps users look at Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats facing a team or business.

Planning & Estimation

T-shirt sizing

The T-shirt sizing template gets the team to use playing cards to estimate future work items, from XS up to XL.

Ways Of Working

Team Canvas (Simple)

The Team Canvas is an exercise to help form the team’s identity.

Team Mood Thermometer

Gauge the team mood with this quick icebreaker.

Team Skills Retro

Perform an assessment of the team’s skills and decide where to improve.

The Awards Ceremony

Hold an awards ceremony for your recently released work!

The Big Christmas Retro

Ho Ho Ho… etc. A three-part Christmas retrospective.

The Boxing Ring

If the last sprint felt like 10 rounds in the ring, use this retrospective to review the highlights.

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

A classic retro with a fun theme based on the 1966 Western movie.

The Hot Air Balloon

The Hot Air Balloon is a hybrid retro / futurespective that looks at what is helping / hindering the team and what positive / negative things are on the horizon.

Futurespectives

The Hot Air Balloon

The Hot Air Balloon is a hybrid retro / futurespective that looks at what is helping / hindering the team and what positive / negative things are on the horizon.

The Sailboat

The Sailboat is a picture template that uses a sailing boat metaphor to apply the four category retrospective in a more interesting way.

Futurespectives

The Sailboat

The Sailboat is a picture template that uses a sailing boat metaphor to apply the four category retrospective in a more interesting way.

The Speed Car

Picture template that uses a racing car metaphor to ask the team what is holding them back and what is driving them forwards.

The Speed Car & The Abyss

A variation on The Speed Car activity that adds a future facing section to create a hybrid retrospective/futurespective.

Futurespectives

The Speed Car & The Abyss

A variation on The Speed Car activity that adds a future facing section to create a hybrid retrospective/futurespective.

The Starfish

Picture template where each arm of a starfish represents a category for team feedback and ideas.

The Superhero

What would be the Super Powers and Weaknesses of your team as a superhero? Who would be your sidekick?

Three Little Pigs

Use the story of the Three Little Pigs to identify the team’s weak and strong structures, and decide how to improve them.

Thumbs / New Ideas / Recognition

Four-panel retrospective for team feedback that includes an emphasis on recognition and new ideas.

Timeline Retro with Mood Tracker

A Timeline Retrospective template with added mood tracker.

Timeline Retrospective

The Timeline Retrospective is an interactive way to map past events and analyse the highs and lows of a sprint.

Two Truths, One Lie

Split into teams and have fun with this icebreaker. Which ‘facts’ are true and which are lies?

User Journey Mapping

Use the Journey Map to plot the interactions a person has with your product or service and how can you can improve their experience at each step.

Value Proposition Canvas

Map your product value to the customers Jobs-to-be-done, with how your product addresses their needs and pains.

Waste Snake

The Waste Snake helps a team to identify, categorise and tackle inefficiencies they encounter in their daily work.

Weather Check In

What’s your weather? Each person picks a weather icon to describe how they are feeling.

Weather Report

The Weather Report helps a team compare their plan to what actually happened, by reporting on the stormy (disruptive) and sunny (easy) weather conditions they faced, how it affected them, and how they adapted to change.

Ways Of Working

Weekly Team Status

This template helps you organize a weekly check-in meeting, with sections for Projects, People and Any Other Business.

Wishes / Risks / Appreciation / Puzzles

A retrospective format that encourages people to think bigger.

Worked Well / Kinda / Didn’t

A simple retrospective that focuses on the successes and shortcomings of a topic or activity.