🎃👻 Halloween Retrospective: Haunted Sprint
Gather your ghouls and ghosts to uncover the treats and tricks of our sprint, aligning spooky fun with agile growth.
Template Columns
🕸️ Start Spooking New Practices
Identify fresh, daring ideas to haunt our workflow.
Base column: Start🧟♂️ Stop Scaring the Team
Pinpoint practices that cause fright and should be banished.
Base column: Stop🕯️ Continue the Witching Wins
Maintain the magical successes that keep our cauldron bubbling.
Base column: ContinueAbout this template
A themed sprint retrospective that uses Halloween imagery to surface new ideas, stop harmful practices, and celebrate successes.
When to use this template
Use when the team wants a fun, engaging way to reflect, especially during a Halloween season or when morale needs a boost.
How to facilitate
Set the spooky mood with a Halloween icebreaker and explain the three columns to the group
In the Start Spooking New Practices column have participants add bold ideas they’d like to try, then cluster similar suggestions
Move to the Stop Scaring the Team column, let everyone post practices that caused fear or friction, discuss and prioritize the top items to eliminate
In the Continue the Witching Wins column capture magical successes, vote on the most impactful to keep for the next sprint
Turn the top actions from each column into concrete sprint commitments, assign owners, and close with a fun Halloween chant or virtual background
Pro Tips
Use themed virtual backgrounds or emojis to keep energy high without distracting from the discussion
Limit each participant to a set number of items per column to keep the conversation focused
Turn voting into a quick poll with a spooky timer to maintain momentum
FAQ
What if the Halloween theme feels distracting?
Acknowledge the concern and scale back to just the column structure or use a subtler theme; the core process works without elaborate decorations.
How can we support remote participants who are shy about sharing ideas?
Allow anonymous sticky notes or a private chat submission, then reveal them collectively to ensure all voices are heard.
What should we do if we run out of time?
Prioritize the highest‑impact items, use timeboxing for each column, and defer lower‑priority ideas to a follow‑up discussion.
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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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