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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

A simple reflective exercise to generate constructive feedback.

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

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

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

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

Hold an awards ceremony for your recently released work!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Timeline Retrospective template with added mood tracker.

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

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

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.

A retrospective format that encourages people to think bigger.

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