🚢 Smooth Sailing Ahead
All aboard! Reflect on our project's journey as we navigate the seas of success and challenges. Identify smooth sailing practices and steer away from turbulent waters, ensuring a productive voyage.
Colonnes du modèle
âš“ Anchor Activities
Identify practices we should anchor down to start or establish in our journey.
Colonne de base: Start⛴️ Avoid Rocks
Call out the obstacles or practices we should avoid to prevent sinking.
Colonne de base: Stop🌊 Steady Currents
Recognize what’s propelling us forward and keep steady on these currents.
Colonne de base: ContinueÀ propos de ce modèle
The "Smooth Sailing Ahead" retrospective helps teams reflect on practices to establish, obstacles to avoid, and successful approaches to continue fostering for smooth project execution.
Quand utiliser ce modèle
This format is ideal for teams wanting to evaluate and refine their processes to maximize effectiveness and mitigate potential risks.
Comment faciliter
Start by explaining the nautical theme of the retrospective and how each column represents a different reflection aspect of the project.
Introduce the three columns: Anchor Activities (new practices to adopt), Avoid Rocks (challenges or pitfalls to evade), and Steady Currents (effective strategies to maintain).
Allow team members 5-10 minutes to individually reflect and add their thoughts to each column either as text or drawings.
Discuss the notes in each column as a team, ensuring each contribution is reviewed and owners have a chance to clarify their input.
Collaboratively identify themes or patterns in the contributions to each column, and group similar items together.
Prioritize action items based on their impact and feasibility, involving the team in choosing 1-2 priorities to address before the next project interval.
Summarize the outcomes of the retrospective, including decisions made, and document this for transparency and follow-up.
End the session with a quick thank-you and a summary of the next steps, and check for any final reflections from the team.
Conseils de pro
Encourage creativity in responses by allowing participants to use metaphors or artwork to represent their thoughts.
Set a timer for silent brainstorming to help team members focus on reflecting without interruptions.
Revisit the theme at the start and end to reinforce the emotional connection to the concepts.
Allow team members to vote on the grouped items to create a shared sense of prioritization and buy-in.
Provide optional guiding questions during reflection to prompt deeper insights.
FAQ
What if one column is significantly imbalanced with contributions?
Use this as a discussion point to explore why the focus has leaned more towards a particular aspect—this might reveal underlying team concerns or successes.
How do we handle repeated items across columns?
Group similar contributions and merge them if appropriate. This encourages efficiency and can highlight the most pressing issues.
En un coup d'Ĺ“il
- Durée
45-60 min
- Taille de l'Ă©quipe
4-10 personnes
- Colonnes
3 colonnes
- Format de base
Start, Stop, Continue
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