🌞🎆 July Jubilee
Celebrate the midyear spark! Let’s light up our retrospective by reflecting on our summer highlights, sunburns, and fresh resolutions for a brighter sprint. Let’s keep our agility sizzling!
Template Columns
🌻 Sunshine Successes
Share the summer wins and growth we basked in this sprint.
Base column: What Went Well🌧️ Summer Showers
Discuss any storms or missteps that rained on our parade.
Base column: What Went Wrong🧴 Sunblock Strategies
Suggest how we can protect ourselves from future mishaps and shine even brighter.
Base column: What We Want to ImproveAbout this template
The July Jubilee retrospective helps your team celebrate wins, reflect on challenges, and set intentions for a brighter, more agile sprint ahead using a fun summer theme.
When to use this template
Use this format midyear or after a particularly eventful sprint to energize your team, recognize accomplishments, and realign goals while keeping things light and engaging.
How to facilitate
Open with a warm welcome, inviting everyone to share one thing they enjoy about summer to set a positive tone.
Introduce the three columns—Sunshine Successes, Summer Showers, and Sunblock Strategies—explaining the meaning of each.
Ask everyone to reflect individually and add their highlights, challenges, and improvement suggestions to the corresponding columns.
Give attendees time to review all contributions, then discuss each column, focusing discussion on key patterns and underlying causes.
Collaboratively identify 2-3 actionable strategies from the Sunblock Strategies column to try next sprint, ensuring consensus and ownership.
Wrap up by inviting each team member to share a fresh resolution or takeaway for the coming weeks.
Thank the team for their openness, confirm action items, and close the session on a celebratory note.
Pro Tips
Play upbeat summer music during card submission to set a festive mood, but allow for focus during discussion.
Encourage storytelling around successes and lessons learned for deeper engagement.
Rotate which team member summarizes each column's discussion to share ownership and keep energy high.
If participation dips, prompt quieter members directly with specific questions, relating to their work.
Have a cool visual (like a summer-themed background) to reinforce the jubilee spirit.
FAQ
What if our team isn't in a 'summer' mood or context?
Feel free to adapt the metaphor—focus on the themes of recognition, learning, and preventive strategies, framing the session around positivity and resilience.
How do we keep the discussion constructive when discussing 'Summer Showers'?
Reinforce psychological safety, reminding everyone that the goal is to learn, not blame. Guide conversation back to behaviors and processes, not individuals.
What if the same issues come up repeatedly in 'Summer Showers'?
Dig deeper into root causes, involve the team in brainstorming fresh approaches, and prioritize improvement actions in 'Sunblock Strategies.'
How can we prevent the resolutions from being forgotten?
Assign clear owners and add key actions to your team's task board. Check in on progress during daily standups or the next retrospective.
At a glance
- Duration
45–60 min
- Team Size
4-10 people
- Columns
3 columns
- Base Format
What Went Well, What Went Wrong, What We Want to Improve
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