🏆⚽ Football Frenzy
Kick off this football-themed retro and bring your team spirit to the field! Let's huddle up to celebrate victories, tackle obstacles, and strategize winning plays for our project’s next match.
Template Columns
🚦 Kickoff Moves to Start
Suggest powerful new plays and teamwork strategies we should introduce to up our project game.
Base column: Start🛑 Offsides to Stop
Call out patterns or moves that are blocking progress so we can avoid red cards in the future.
Base column: Stop🏟️ Champions’ Play to Continue
Highlight the winning strategies and collaborative moves we should keep running down the field.
Base column: ContinueAbout this template
Football Frenzy is a sports-themed retrospective that energizes your team to start, stop, and continue specific behaviors using football metaphors. It’s designed to foster playful, constructive conversations around strategic improvements.
When to use this template
Use this format at the end of a sprint, project, or milestone to boost engagement and address team dynamics in a sporty, fun environment.
How to facilitate
Begin with a quick icebreaker where team members share their favorite sports memory to set the playful tone
Explain the retrospective’s football analogy and the purpose of each column: Kickoff Moves to Start, Offsides to Stop, Champions’ Play to Continue
Encourage everyone to add their thoughts to each column, focusing on actionable insights tied to teamwork and project performance
Invite participants to present and discuss their entries, clustering similar ideas to spot shared themes
Guide the team to prioritize the most impactful items from each column and determine concrete actions or experiments for next steps
Wrap up by celebrating a recent 'win' as a team and summarizing action items, ensuring responsibilities are clear for follow-up
Pro Tips
Lean into the football theme by encouraging creative wording and sports analogies for entries
Offer visual aids like a shared scoreboard or field background to keep energy high
If participation lags, mix things up with quick challenges like 'predict the next winning play' to spark sharing
FAQ
What if team members aren’t into sports or football?
Emphasize that the theme is just for fun and inclusivity. Encourage playful participation while focusing on improvement, not football knowledge.
How do I keep discussions from becoming too light and missing real issues?
Guide the team back to project outcomes and improvement, balancing the lively theme with honest reflection on work processes.
How do we turn suggestions into concrete actions?
After discussing entries, explicitly assign owners and timelines for the top priorities to ensure follow-through and accountability.
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At a glance
- Duration
40–55 min
- Team Size
4-12 people
- Columns
3 columns
- Base Format
Start, Stop, Continue
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