🏰⚔️ Conquest Campaign
March into our sprint battlefield, seize victories, abandon failed tactics, and fortify the strategies that keep our empire thriving.
Template Columns
⚔️ Initiate the Assault
Identify new offensive tactics or initiatives to begin conquering our goals.
Base column: Start🛑 Cease the Siege
Highlight practices that drain resources or cause setbacks, and stop them.
Base column: Stop🏆 Maintain the Stronghold
Keep the successful defenses and strategies that protect our progress.
Base column: ContinueAbout this template
A battle‑themed sprint retrospective that identifies new initiatives, stops draining practices, and reinforces what’s working.
When to use this template
Use when the team needs a clear, action‑oriented review that frames work as a campaign of attacks and defenses.
How to facilitate
Gather the team in a virtual or physical space, set a timer for the session, and briefly remind everyone of the conquest metaphor and the three columns
Start with the “Initiate the Assault” column: ask each participant to write down one or two offensive tactics or ideas they want to try in the next sprint, then share and cluster similar items
Move to the “Cease the Siege” column: have the team list practices or obstacles that slowed progress, discuss why they are harmful, and vote on the top two to stop
Proceed to the “Maintain the Stronghold” column: capture the defenses and processes that protected the team’s success, highlight the most valuable ones, and agree on how to keep them
Consolidate the outcomes into a simple action board with three rows (Start, Stop, Continue), assign owners and due dates, and close the retro with a quick confidence check
Pro Tips
Use a quick silent brainstorming tool like virtual sticky notes before discussion to give quieter voices time to surface ideas
Limit each item to a single sentence to keep the board readable and the conversation focused
After the retro, send a one‑page summary that maps each action to a sprint goal so the team sees immediate relevance
FAQ
What if the team runs out of ideas for new initiatives?
Prompt with open‑ended questions like “What could we try that we haven’t done before?” or bring in stakeholder suggestions to spark fresh attacks
How do we prevent the “Stop” column from becoming a blame session?
Frame each item as a process issue, not a person, and focus on the impact to the sprint rather than who caused it
Can we use this format for a longer project review?
Yes, simply expand the timebox and allow multiple rounds of ideas per column, but keep the core three‑column structure to retain clarity
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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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