🔍✨ Quality Quest
Embark on a quest to sharpen our craft—celebrate high standards, root out flaws, and forge a path toward flawless delivery.
Template Columns
🚀 Initiate Excellence
Identify new practices to begin that will boost product quality.
Base column: Start🛑 Halt Defects
Pinpoint activities that introduce bugs or lower standards and cease them.
Base column: Stop✅ Keep the Gold Standard
Maintain and reinforce the quality practices that are already working well.
Base column: ContinueAbout this template
A quality‑focused retrospective that identifies new practices, stops defect‑causing actions, and reinforces what’s working.
When to use this template
Use when the team wants to improve product quality, reduce bugs, and solidify high‑standard habits.
How to facilitate
Explain the purpose of the Quality Quest retrospective and introduce the three columns: Initiate Excellence, Halt Defects, Keep the Gold Standard.
Give each participant 5 minutes to silently add their ideas to the appropriate column using virtual sticky notes.
Facilitate a round‑robin walk‑through of each column, grouping similar ideas and discussing the impact of each.
Ask the team to vote for the top two items in each column that will become action items.
Turn the selected items into concrete, measurable actions with owners and due dates, then recap and close the session.
Pro Tips
Remind the group of the team's Definition of Done before brainstorming to keep focus on quality standards.
Limit each person to three ideas per column to keep the board manageable and discussions focused.
Pair every ‘Stop’ item with a preventive measure or a responsible owner to ensure it doesn’t reappear.
FAQ
What if we run out of ideas for the ‘Initiate Excellence’ column?
Prompt the team to look at recent customer feedback, missed bugs, or industry best practices for inspiration, and encourage small, testable experiments.
How can we make sure ‘Stop’ items lead to real change?
Assign a clear owner, define a measurable metric, and review progress in the next sprint’s stand‑up.
Is it okay to have many items in each column?
Aim for 5‑7 high‑impact ideas per column; excess items can dilute focus, so prioritize and defer lower‑priority suggestions.
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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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