🎃👻 Spooky Sprint Spectacle
Gather your ghouls and goblins to haunt the sprint—celebrate the treats, confront the tricks, and brew a potion for future success!
Template Columns
🍬 Sweet Successes
Share the treats—wins and delights from the sprint.
Base column: Glad🕸️ Haunted Hurdles
Reveal the scares—issues and setbacks that haunted us.
Base column: Sad🔥 Fiery Frights
Vent the curses—frustrations and angry moments that burned us.
Base column: MadAbout this template
A Halloween‑themed sprint retrospective that lets teams celebrate wins, surface obstacles, and release frustrations to create actionable improvements.
When to use this template
Use when you want to inject fun into a sprint review while still gathering honest feedback on successes, blockers, and frustrations.
How to facilitate
Set a spooky background and briefly explain the three columns: Sweet Successes, Haunted Hurdles, and Fiery Frights.
Ask participants to silently add sticky notes to the Sweet Successes column for each win they experienced during the sprint.
Group similar successes, discuss the highlights, and capture any emerging themes.
Move to Haunted Hurdles, have everyone write down setbacks, then discuss root causes and possible mitigations.
Proceed to Fiery Frights, allow team members to vent frustrations, and identify patterns that need attention.
Vote on the top items from each column to prioritize what the team will address next.
Create concrete action items for the upcoming sprint, assign owners, and close the session with a quick recap.
Pro Tips
Use themed emojis on the board to keep energy high without derailing focus
Limit each sticky note to one concise sentence to keep discussions focused
Allow anonymous entries for Fiery Frights to surface true frustrations
Set a timer for each column discussion to stay on schedule
FAQ
What if the team is hesitant to share frustrations?
Assure anonymity for Fiery Frights, use a quick poll for voting, and model openness by sharing your own challenges.
How do we keep the Halloween theme from becoming a distraction?
Limit decorations to background images and emojis, and allocate a strict timebox for each activity.
Can this format work for larger teams?
Yes, split into smaller groups for each column discussion and then bring back the top items for whole‑team voting.
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At a glance
- Duration
45–60 min
- Team Size
4-12 people
- Columns
3 columns
- Base Format
Glad, Sad, Mad
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