🗡️✨ Final Fantasy XI Quest Log
Step into the world of Vana’diel! Share your victories, vanquish your blockers, and power up your teamwork as we journey together toward legendary project achievements.
Template Columns
🌱 New Abilities to Start
Suggest new actions, techniques, or rituals our party should start to boost our chances of victory.
Base column: Startâ›” Boss Mechanics to Stop
Reveal processes, habits, or obstacles we should leave behind, just like dodging a dangerous boss move.
Base column: Stopđź’Ž Trusted Spells to Continue
Highlight the strategies and habits that work wonders—let’s keep casting these tried-and-true spells!
Base column: ContinueAbout this template
The Final Fantasy XI Quest Log retrospective invites teams to share new ideas, confront blockers, and reinforce successful practices—all while drawing inspiration from cooperative adventures in Vana’diel.
When to use this template
This format works best for teams who enjoy gaming themes, are facing recurring obstacles, or want to re-energize their collaboration and experiment with new approaches.
How to facilitate
Introduce the quest: explain the theme and each column’s purpose, connecting actions to the journey toward project milestones.
Ask everyone to silently write cards for all three columns: new abilities to start, boss mechanics to stop, and trusted spells to continue.
Invite team members to share one card at a time, grouping similar ideas and encouraging brief discussion after each entry.
Facilitate a collaborative conversation to dig into the most pressing blockers and brainstorm ways to avoid or overcome them, just like learning boss mechanics together.
Guide the team to select one or two 'new abilities' to try in the next sprint and identify how to track their impact.
Confirm which 'trusted spells' (successful habits) are worth formalizing as team standards and which 'boss mechanics' must be retired for good.
Wrap up by visualizing the 'party’s journey'—summarize key takeaways, celebrate collaborative wins, and set the stage for future quests.
Pro Tips
Invite team members to show off their favorite gaming references, avatars, or backgrounds to boost engagement.
Challenge the group to assign real project examples to the 'boss mechanics' column for more targeted improvements.
Use a shared log at the end of each retro to track your 'party's' progress and celebrate when old blockers are permanently defeated.
FAQ
What if team members aren’t familiar with Final Fantasy XI?
The fantasy theme is just for fun—focus on the column prompts. The facilitator can briefly explain the references so everyone stays engaged.
How do we handle too many suggestions in each column?
Vote or dot-prioritize items as a group and focus the discussion on the highest-impact areas for the next sprint.
What if blockers keep coming up in every retro?
Treat persistent blockers as 'boss phases'—dedicate action items, assign ownership, and check progress each sprint until resolved.
At a glance
- Duration
40–55 min
- Team Size
4-10 people
- Columns
3 columns
- Base Format
Start, Stop, Continue
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