🛠️ Labor Day Builder Bash
Grab your hard hats! Let's celebrate Labor Day by constructing a stronger, more collaborative team. Reflect on our efforts, recognize achievements, and lay bricks for an even better sprint ahead!
Template Columns
🔨 New Foundations
Share practices or habits we should begin building to reinforce our teamwork and project success.
Base column: Start🛑 Packing Up the Tools
Identify routines or blockers that we should stop using so our workflow remains safe, smooth, and productive.
Base column: Stop🏗️ Solid Structures
Highlight what’s working well and deserves to be reinforced as we construct the path to sprint success.
Base column: ContinueAbout this template
This Labor Day Builder Bash retrospective uses a construction theme to celebrate teamwork, recognize achievements, and plan actionable improvements for future sprints.
When to use this template
Use this template at the end of a sprint or project, especially when you want to energize your team and reinforce collaborative habits in a lighthearted, seasonal way.
How to facilitate
Kick off by explaining the Labor Day Builder Bash concept, encouraging a positive, constructive mindset focused on building a stronger team.
Review each column: 'New Foundations' for new practices, 'Packing Up the Tools' for things to stop, and 'Solid Structures' for things to keep reinforcing.
Ask each team member to add their reflections to each column in silence, aiming for honest, actionable items.
Facilitate a group review; read out cards, cluster similar items, and encourage discussion to deepen insights and build consensus.
Prioritize which actions to take forward by voting or group discussion; ensure each prioritized item has clear ownership.
Close the retro by celebrating progress and commitments made, reinforcing the theme of building together.
Pro Tips
Encourage everyone to focus on specific habits or routines rather than vague suggestions for clearer outcomes.
Use real examples from recent work to ground the discussion and inspire actionable items.
Assign a 'safety inspector' (rotating role) to spot any language that could be discouraging—keep feedback constructive.
Connect 'New Foundations' directly to team goals to boost alignment and motivation.
FAQ
What if the team struggles to suggest 'New Foundations'?
Prompt with examples of small, actionable habits or practices, and refer to recent challenges the team faced for inspiration.
How can we prevent 'Packing Up the Tools' from feeling negative?
Frame it as an opportunity to remove obstacles and make space for better ways of working, focusing on the benefits of change.
What if too many items are added to each column?
Cluster similar ideas, then vote or prioritize as a group to keep the action list focused and manageable.
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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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