🚜🌾 Rural Roadmap
Saddle up and steer through the wide fields of our agile journey! Share stories of fertile fields (successes), bumpy dirt roads (challenges), and tilling strategies (improvements) to ensure our harvest is bountiful and successful.
Template Columns
🌟 Fertile Fields
Cultivate your team’s triumphs and achievements like a thriving cornfield!
Base column: What Went Well🌪️ Bumpy Dirt Roads
Talk about challenges and obstacles that may have slowed your progress.
Base column: What Went Wrong⚙️ Tilling Strategies
Discuss actionable ways to improve and prepare your team for the next sprint.
Base column: What We Want to ImproveAbout this template
The Rural Roadmap retrospective helps teams reflect on successes, challenges, and potential improvements in a creative and theme-based way.
When to use this template
Use this format at the end of a sprint or iteration to celebrate victories, tackle obstacles, and brainstorm actionable improvements for a thriving workflow.
How to facilitate
Start by welcoming the team and explaining the Rural Roadmap theme to set the tone.
Introduce the three areas of reflection: Fertile Fields (successes), Bumpy Dirt Roads (challenges), and Tilling Strategies (improvements).
Allow participants five to ten minutes to add their thoughts to each column, encouraging creativity and detailed insights.
Once the time is up, review the Fertile Fields column together and celebrate the team's victories.
Proceed to the Bumpy Dirt Roads section and discuss each challenge, ensuring everyone's input is heard.
Move to Tilling Strategies and collaborate to identify realistic improvements and assign responsible individuals for action items.
Close the retrospective with a summary of insights and decisions made, thanking the team for their contributions.
Pro Tips
Encourage storytelling when discussing Fertile Fields to inspire and motivate team members.
Use visual aids, such as farm-themed sketches, to enhance engagement and lighten the atmosphere.
Keep discussions focused during the Bumpy Dirt Roads section to avoid veering into long-winded tangents.
Aim for consensus when identifying Tilling Strategies to ensure team buy-in for proposed changes.
Document the outcomes and ensure follow-up actions are tracked and revisited in future meetings.
FAQ
What if the team struggles to propose improvements?
Guide the discussion with prompting questions or reference past retrospectives for inspiration.
How do I ensure action items from Tilling Strategies are implemented?
Assign specific team members to each action and track progress in standup meetings or a project management tool.
Can we customize the column themes?
Absolutely, tailor the themes to your team's culture as long as the core intent (successes, challenges, improvements) remains intact.
At a glance
- Duration
45-60 min
- Team Size
4-12 people
- Columns
3 columns
- Base Format
What Went Well, What Went Wrong, What We Want to Improve
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Ready to get started?
Use this template to run your next retrospective