🤖✈️ AI Flight Crew Ready

Welcome aboard the AI-powered Engineering Airlines! Let's analyze our recent journey: celebrate smooth flights (successes), navigate turbulent air (challenges), and optimize for a safer, faster journey ahead.
45–60 min
4-12 people
Based on: What Went Well, What Went Wrong, What We Want to Improve
🤖✈️ AI Flight Crew Ready
Template Columns
💡 Engine Innovations

Share the AI-driven breakthroughs and processes that soared high during our journeys.

Base column: What Went Well
⚠️ Computational Turbulence

Identify the problems and hiccups that caused some headwinds in our flights.

Base column: What Went Wrong
📈 Optimization Routes

Explore improvements and strategies to clear the skies for future successes.

Base column: What We Want to Improve
About this template

The 'AI Flight Crew Ready' retrospective helps teams celebrate successes, address challenges, and strategize improvements by leveraging an airplane metaphor to guide insightful discussion.

When to use this template

Use this retrospective after completing significant projects or iterations to analyze performance, evaluate challenges, and collaboratively plan enhancements.

How to facilitate
1

Open the retrospective by welcoming the team aboard 'Engineering Airlines' and explain the metaphor being used to frame the discussion.

2

Start with the 'Engine Innovations' column and ask team members to reflect on AI-driven successes or innovations. Encourage discussion to highlight key victories.

3

Move to the 'Computational Turbulence' column to identify problems or challenges encountered. Ensure the conversation remains constructive and solution-focused.

4

Shift to the 'Optimization Routes' column and brainstorm strategies for overcoming challenges and enhancing performance. Aim for actionable improvements.

5

Conclude the retrospective by summarizing discoveries and committing to a few key actions or changes.

Pro Tips

Engage the team by encouraging them to visualize themselves as a cohesive flight crew.

Frame challenges as opportunities, guiding the team to consider what specific insights they gained.

Timebox discussions in each column appropriately to ensure a balanced focus on all parts.

Use collaborative tools like voting to determine priority actions in the 'Optimization Routes' column.

FAQ
What if the team feels unengaged with the flight crew metaphor?

Explain the purpose of the metaphor and encourage them to focus on its value in structuring thoughts and fostering team collaboration.

How can shy team members be encouraged to participate?

Provide advance notice of the retrospective's structure and questions, giving them time to prepare thoughts.

What if the team tends to get stuck on challenges?

Acknowledge the value of recognizing issues but steer the focus toward possible resolutions and future opportunities.

At a glance
  • Duration

    45–60 min

  • Team Size

    4-12 people

  • Columns

    3 columns

  • Base Format

    What Went Well, What Went Wrong, What We Want to Improve

Tags
team reflection
process improvement
engineering
AI and innovation
metaphorical retrospectives
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Use this template to run your next retrospective