🍩🍬 Sweet Success Shop
Step into our candy shop of agile wonders! Celebrate the tasty wins, sprinkle in new flavors, and avoid sugar rush crashes as we craft the recipe for an even sweeter team sprint.
Template Columns
🍩 Glazed Goodness
Share the flavorful practices and moments we want to keep savoring.
Base column: Keep🍭 New Flavors to Try
Suggest fun ingredients and techniques to add to our team mix.
Base column: Add🥤 Less Sugar Rush
Highlight processes or habits that need to be toned down for a balanced batch.
Base column: Less🍫 More Candy Coating
Spot areas where we can sweeten our approach for extra delight!
Base column: MoreAbout this template
The Sweet Success Shop retrospective encourages teams to celebrate wins, experiment with fresh ideas, find better balance, and amplify delight in their ways of working.
When to use this template
Use this retrospective at the end of a sprint or project when you want to combine fun with constructive conversation, especially if the team needs both celebration and fresh ideas.
How to facilitate
Set the scene with a playful introduction, inviting everyone to visit the 'Sweet Success Shop' and embrace the candy theme for open, light-hearted sharing.
Explain the four columns and encourage participants to think in terms of flavors, recipes, and ingredients as they reflect on the past sprint.
Give everyone time to add their thoughts—flavorful wins, new experiments, habits to reduce, and ways to sweeten the team experience—to the corresponding columns.
Facilitate group discussion, inviting team members to share stories or context for their notes and to ask clarifying questions.
Cluster similar ideas together and highlight key patterns or recurring themes.
As a team, choose the top insights or changes to focus on and agree on specific, actionable commitments for the next sprint.
Close the session by celebrating creative contributions, expressing appreciation for candid conversations, and summarizing commitments.
Pro Tips
Encourage playful language and imagery to keep energy high and help people surface unconventional ideas.
Ask for specific examples behind key suggestions to turn abstract ideas into actionable changes.
Allocate extra time to the 'New Flavors to Try' and 'More Candy Coating' columns to foster innovation.
Check in with quieter teammates during the discussion to ensure all voices are included.
FAQ
How do I help my team avoid only focusing on positives or negatives?
Guide the discussion through each column and emphasize the value of ideas in all categories. Prompt with specific questions for each column as needed.
What if participants struggle with the playful theme?
Remind everyone that the fun is meant to spark creativity and vulnerability, but it's okay to simply focus on the intent behind each column if the theme isn’t resonating.
How can I ensure takeaways lead to action?
Before closing, agree on concrete owners and next steps for the most promising ideas. Follow up in upcoming meetings to maintain momentum.
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At a glance
- Duration
45–60 min
- Team Size
4-10 people
- Columns
4 columns
- Base Format
Keep, Add, Less, More
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