The Television Production Showdown retrospective invites your team to reflect on recent work through a creative, TV-production themed lens—spotlighting wins, analyzing missteps, and brainstorming improvements.

When to use this template

Use this retrospective when your team needs an engaging, light-hearted format to creatively discuss recent successes, challenges, and upcoming changes. It's ideal for sprints with high collaboration, complex deliverables, or after memorable project moments.

How to facilitate

Kick off the retrospective by setting the theme—encourage everyone to imagine the last sprint as an episode on a TV set and explain the focus of each column.

Begin with Emmy Moments—invite team members to share highlights, standout achievements, or examples of seamless teamwork.

Move to Bloopers Reel—ask the team to add moments where things went off-script, challenges emerged, or miscommunications happened.

Open Script Rewrites—collect ideas and suggestions for improvements and plot points the team wants to address for the next iteration.

Review all contributions together, looking for patterns or recurring themes across columns, and discuss as a group.

Vote on the most critical or promising Script Rewrites for action and assign responsibilities for follow-up.

Close by celebrating the best 'Emmy Moment' and summarizing agreed actions to keep the energy positive.

Pro Tips

Lean into the theme with fun TV references or sound effects to make the session more memorable and engaging.

Encourage quieter team members to contribute by inviting them to share their 'behind-the-scenes' perspectives first.

Keep the energy up by moving through columns briskly—if discussions stall, pivot back to the playful TV metaphor.

Consider pre-filling one example per column to break the ice and help participants get started.

FAQ

What if someone’s feedback doesn’t fit the TV theme?

That's perfectly fine—remind the team the theme is for fun, but any feedback is welcome, regardless of how it's phrased.

How do we keep the discussion from losing focus with the playful format?

Set clear timeboxes for each section and gently steer conversations back to actionable outcomes when needed.

What if we run out of time to discuss all Script Rewrites?

Use voting to quickly prioritize which improvements to address and save others for future sessions.

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At a glance

Duration
45–60 min
Team Size
4-10 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

📺🎬 Television Production Showdown

Lights, camera, action! Step onto the studio set and reflect on our team’s production. Let’s spotlight our successes, unravel plot twists, and script improvements for the next episode of our agile journey!

Template Columns

🌟 Emmy Moments

📉 Bloopers Reel

📋 Script Rewrites

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