📚🧭 Learning Expedition
Embark on a knowledge expedition, charting our discoveries, shedding dead weight, and reinforcing the practices that fuel continuous growth.
Template Columns
🚀 Start Exploring
Identify new skills, tools, or practices to begin exploring in our next sprint.
Base column: Start🛑 Stop Stumbling
Highlight learning habits or blockers we should cease to improve efficiency.
Base column: Stop🌱 Continue Growing
Celebrate effective learning methods we’ll keep nurturing.
Base column: ContinueAbout this template
A focused retrospective that maps new learning opportunities, discards unhelpful habits, and reinforces successful growth practices.
When to use this template
Use when the team wants to improve its learning cadence and reflect on knowledge acquisition after a few sprints.
How to facilitate
Set the purpose: explore new skills, stop blockers, and continue effective practices.
Give each participant five minutes of silent brainstorming on a digital board, adding ideas to the three columns.
Group similar ideas, discuss each column, and prioritize the top items for the next sprint.
For every "Start Exploring" item, assign an owner and define a small, testable experiment.
Record the agreed actions in a follow‑up list and close with a quick appreciation round.
Pro Tips
Time‑box silent writing to ensure equal input from all voices.
Turn vague topics into concrete experiments with clear success criteria.
When identifying things to stop, ask "What cost does this habit incur?" to surface impact.
FAQ
What if the team can’t agree on what to start exploring?
Focus on the most common pain points and pick one small experiment to try first, revisiting the list in the next retrospective.
How do we keep the "Continue Growing" column from becoming a dump for everything?
Limit entries to practices that showed measurable improvement and assign a champion to sustain each practice.
Is this format suitable for large teams?
For groups larger than ten, split into two smaller groups, run the exercise in parallel, and then combine the top items during a joint 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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