🚀🤖 AI Blitz
Gear up, team! In this AI Blitz retro, we sprint through our rapid AI tool creation, celebrating lightning wins, cutting dead weight, and fueling the engine for even faster innovation.
Template Columns
⚡️ Ignite New Experiments
Propose fresh ideas or practices to accelerate our AI development.
Base column: Start🛑 Halt Bottlenecks
Identify and cease activities that slow down our rapid AI build.
Base column: Stop🚀 Keep the Momentum
Maintain the practices that helped us deliver the AI tool quickly.
Base column: ContinueAbout this template
A fast‑paced retro that reviews AI tool sprints, highlighting quick wins, stopping blockers, and reinforcing speed‑boosting practices.
When to use this template
Use when your team delivers AI prototypes in short cycles and needs a rapid pulse check to keep momentum.
How to facilitate
Set a timer for the session and briefly remind the team of the AI Blitz purpose and the three columns
Ask each participant to write one idea per sticky for Ignite New Experiments, focusing on any new technique, tool, or workflow that could speed up AI development
Collect the sticks, group similar ideas, and discuss each, voting with dot stickers for the top two experiments to try next sprint
Repeat the same process for Halt Bottlenecks, encouraging honest identification of any practice, dependency, or tool that slowed the last sprint, then vote on the most critical blockers to eliminate
Finally, capture Keep the Momentum items, highlight the practices that delivered speed, and agree on at least one to reinforce in the next iteration
Pro Tips
Use a shared digital board with color‑coded columns so remote participants can drag and drop ideas instantly
Limit each person to three items per column to keep the discussion focused and avoid overload
After voting, assign a clear owner and a short deadline to each selected experiment or blocker removal
FAQ
What if the team runs out of ideas for new experiments?
Encourage looking at recent AI research, competitor releases, or cross‑team collaborations; even small tweaks count as experiments.
How do we handle dominant voices during discussion?
Use a round‑robin or timed speaking turns in the virtual room, and rely on anonymous voting to surface the most valuable items.
Can this retro be shortened for very small sprints?
Yes, compress the voting stage to a quick poll and limit each column to two top items, keeping the total time around 30 minutes.
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At a glance
- Duration
45–60 min
- Team Size
4-12 people
- Columns
3 columns
- Base Format
Start, Stop, Continue
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