🌸🌿 Spring Garden
Step into our vibrant spring garden and reflect on our project's growth. Celebrate fruitful blooms, uproot weeds, and nurture new seeds for a flourishing future. Let's cultivate teamwork and success!
Template Columns
🌼 Flourishing Blooms
Celebrate the successes and fruitful aspects of our journey, just like blossoming flowers.
Base column: What Went Well🌱 Pesky Weeds
Identify the obstacles and challenges we faced that hindered our project's growth.
Base column: What Went Wrong🌼🌻 Seeds for Growth
Discuss areas for improvement and how to nurture them for future success.
Base column: What We Want to ImproveAbout this template
The Spring Garden retrospective brings a fresh perspective to project reflection by celebrating successes, identifying challenges, and planning growth areas.
When to use this template
Use this template at the end of a sprint, quarter, or milestone to evaluate progress, address challenges, and plan for future improvements.
How to facilitate
Welcome the team and introduce the Spring Garden metaphor, explaining each column and its role in reflecting on the team's journey.
Start with the Flourishing Blooms column, inviting everyone to share achievements, highlights, and positive outcomes.
Move to the Pesky Weeds column, asking team members to identify obstacles or difficulties experienced.
Transition to the Seeds for Growth column, encouraging a discussion about areas to improve and actionable ways to nurture positive change.
Facilitate a group discussion to prioritize the ideas from the Seeds for Growth column and define next steps or action items.
Conclude by summarizing the key reflections and thanking the team for their involvement, highlighting the value of their insights.
Pro Tips
Encourage everyone to provide specific and actionable insights to make discussions fruitful.
Use the garden metaphor creatively, such as employing visuals of blooms and weeds to maintain engagement.
Allocate sufficient time for each column but ensure discussions stay focused on the topic at hand.
Balance contributions so quieter team members also have a chance to share thoughts.
Keep the atmosphere positive and constructive, especially when discussing challenges.
FAQ
What if the team struggles to identify challenges?
Prompt discussion by asking about specific scenarios or events, and frame challenges as opportunities for growth.
How do I ensure participants are engaged?
Use the spring garden metaphor interactively, or introduce a timed activity for each column to maintain focus.
How do I prioritize ideas from the Seeds for Growth column effectively?
Use voting or discussion to agree on achievable and impactful goals.
At a glance
- Duration
45–60 min
- Team Size
3-10 people
- Columns
3 columns
- Base Format
What Went Well, What Went Wrong, What We Want to Improve
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Use this template to run your next retrospective