🚚🏢 Internal Migration Journey
Embark on an internal migration adventure! Let's reflect on our team's move within processes or systems—what should travel with us, what new tools to adopt, and what baggage to leave behind. Make our next destination an even better workplace!
Template Columns
🧳 Essentials to Pack
Identify key practices or resources to carry forward on our migration journey.
Base column: Keep🏗️ New Tools & Maps
Suggest helpful additions to ease our internal migration and make the move smoother.
Base column: Add🛑 Lighten the Load
Highlight processes or habits to use less of during our transition to optimize efficiency.
Base column: Less🏃♂️ Accelerate Forward
Share ideas for actions or ways of working we need more of to boost our migration's success.
Base column: MoreAbout this template
The Internal Migration Journey retrospective helps teams reflect on changes within systems or processes, deciding what to carry forward, what to add, what to reduce, and how to accelerate future success.
When to use this template
Use this retrospective during system/process transitions, tool migrations, or major internal change projects—especially when the team needs to reset habits and clarify future directions.
How to facilitate
Set the context by reminding the team about the internal migration and the importance of reflecting on the transition to build a better working environment.
Review each column: Essentials to Pack, New Tools & Maps, Lighten the Load, and Accelerate Forward. Clarify what type of input belongs in each category.
Give participants time to add their thoughts to each column, encouraging them to think about both the technical and interpersonal aspects of migration.
Facilitate a group reading of the notes, clustering similar items and clarifying where needed. Allow brief discussions for key items to gather consensus.
Guide the team to prioritize the most impactful ideas, focusing on additions, reductions, and acceleration opportunities.
Collaboratively agree on a set of action items and owners to ensure concrete follow-up after the migration.
Wrap up by celebrating learnings and reinforcing a forward-looking mindset for the next phase.
Pro Tips
Prompt team members to share migration stories from previous experiences to spark ideas for what truly matters to bring along or leave behind.
Keep the discussion grounded in current realities—avoid adding tools or processes simply because they are new; ensure they solve real problems.
Balance optimism with pragmatism when identifying actions to accelerate; focus on a few high-impact changes rather than many small tweaks.
FAQ
What if team members disagree about what to pack or leave behind?
Encourage open discussion and seek consensus by focusing on the overall migration goals. If needed, use anonymous voting or a decision matrix to resolve strong differences.
How can we ensure we actually implement agreed-upon action items?
Assign clear owners for each action and set check-in points to review progress in future team meetings or retrospectives.
What if we uncover too many things to address at once?
Prioritize the most urgent or high-impact items and create a backlog for less critical suggestions to address later.
At a glance
- Duration
45–60 min
- Team Size
4-12 people
- Columns
4 columns
- Base Format
Keep, Add, Less, More
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Use this template to run your next retrospective