🏆 Crushing It Champions
Step onto the winner’s podium—this retro is all about how we’re racking up story points! Celebrate our victories, explore how to stay on top, and uncover ways to be even more unstoppable. Ready to break new records together?
Template Columns
🚀 Get Set—Start New Records
Suggest new actions or strategies that could help us earn even more story points as a team.
Base column: Start⛔ Drop the Weights—Stop What Slows Us
Identify habits or blockers that are hindering our ability to accumulate story points efficiently.
Base column: Stop🏅 Stay Gold—Continue Champion Moves
Highlight the practices or attitudes that are helping us consistently crush our story points goals.
Base column: ContinueAbout this template
The Crushing It Champions retrospective celebrates team achievements in story points, identifies obstacles, and cultivates winning strategies to keep momentum high.
When to use this template
Use this retrospective when your team wants to celebrate recent sprints, reinforce high performance, or re-energize focus on goals. It's ideal after particularly productive periods or when aiming to boost morale.
How to facilitate
Welcome everyone and briefly recap team achievements, setting a positive and energetic tone.
Explain each column’s focus—new strategies to start, blockers to stop, and winning practices to continue.
Invite individual silent brainstorming, encouraging team members to add insights to all columns.
Facilitate group discussion of notes by column, prioritizing actionable themes, recurring blockers, and champion behaviors.
Guide the team in selecting concrete action items, assigning owners for any new experiments or blocker resolutions.
Wrap up with a round of collective recognition—give shoutouts for contributions and celebrate recent wins.
Pro Tips
Frame the conversation around learning and progress rather than pure numbers to keep feedback motivating.
Encourage sharing specific examples of champion moves and blockers to generate more meaningful insights.
Use timeboxing in each discussion segment to avoid over-focusing on one column or topic.
Make sure new strategies are realistic and fit your team's current velocity.
Celebrate not just outcomes, but also improvements in teamwork and collaboration.
FAQ
How do we keep this retro from becoming overly focused on metrics?
Guide the group to discuss stories behind the numbers—what contributed to wins or challenges and how teamwork played a part.
What if the same blockers keep coming up?
Acknowledge recurring blockers, deepen root cause analysis as a group, and create specific owner-driven actions to address them.
How do we spread successful practices to the whole team?
Highlight champion behaviors and encourage peer sharing. Consider mini-demos or pairing for champions to model these practices.
At a glance
- Duration
40–60 min
- Team Size
4-10 people
- Columns
3 columns
- Base Format
Start, Stop, Continue
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