🏕️🌞 Cartoon Summer Camp Adventure
Welcome to Camp Agilewood! Pitch your tents, share campfire tales of wins, and recount wild raccoon misadventures. Let’s team up like fearless campers, reflect, and plan new adventures for our agile journey!
Template Columns
🏅 Cabin High-Fives
Celebrate our camp victories, clever teamwork, and moments of smooth sailing on the cartoon lake.
Base column: What Went Well🦝 Raccoon Ruckus
Reveal the chaos, mishaps, or sneaky raccoon incidents that tangled up our adventure.
Base column: What Went Wrong🛶 Build a Better Canoe
Share ideas to upgrade our gear, routines, or cabin life for future, more fun-packed sprints.
Base column: What We Want to ImproveAbout this template
Cartoon Summer Camp Adventure is a playful, themed retrospective that invites your team to celebrate successes, surface challenges, and brainstorm improvements in an engaging camp-style format.
When to use this template
Use this format when your team needs a fresh, energizing retrospective to spark creativity and honest reflection, especially after a busy or challenging sprint.
How to facilitate
Set the scene by welcoming your team to 'Camp Agilewood' and explaining the fun summer camp analogy for this retro.
Ask everyone to share their 'Cabin High-Fives,' highlighting wins and moments of great teamwork using positive, story-style language.
Move to 'Raccoon Ruckus' and encourage team members to recount any chaos, obstacles, or mishaps using the playful raccoon metaphor to create psychological safety.
Guide the group to 'Build a Better Canoe' by suggesting improvements or new practices, focusing on collaboration and creative ideas.
Prioritize the most actionable improvement ideas as a group and decide on owners or next steps for each.
Finish with a quick reflective round: ask everyone to share how the camp theme affected their engagement or energy level during the session.
Pro Tips
Lean into the camp theme with background images or music to break the routine and boost engagement.
Ask participants to use short anecdotes or metaphors for each column to spark creativity and lighten serious topics.
Bring visuals or props (even virtual ones, like themed emojis or backgrounds) to further immerse the team and make the session memorable.
FAQ
What if the camp theme feels too playful for our team?
You can moderate the camp elements and focus on the core questions while still gently encouraging a more relaxed, story-driven vibe.
How do we ensure actionable outcomes from creative ideas?
End the session by prioritizing improvements, assigning clear owners, and setting check-in points for follow-up.
How do we handle negativity in the 'Raccoon Ruckus' section?
Remind the team the goal is learning, not blame. The playful theme helps distance from blame, but facilitation should gently guide venting towards constructive conversations.
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At a glance
- Duration
45–60 min
- Team Size
4-10 people
- Columns
3 columns
- Base Format
What Went Well, What Went Wrong, What We Want to Improve
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