🚢🧊 Titanic Voyage
Set sail on the grand liner of our project, navigating icebergs of challenges and celebrating smooth seas of success, as we chart our agile course forward.
Template Columns
⚓️ Set New Courses
Identify fresh initiatives to steer our project toward calmer waters.
Base column: Start🧊 Avoid Icebergs
Highlight practices that risk sinking our progress and should be halted.
Base column: Stop🚢 Keep Sailing
Reinforce the effective habits that keep our journey on track.
Base column: ContinueAbout this template
A nautical-themed retrospective that celebrates successes, stops risky practices, and charts new initiatives to keep the project sailing smoothly.
When to use this template
Use when the team needs a clear view of what to continue, stop, and start, especially after a major milestone or sprint.
How to facilitate
Open the board and explain the Titanic Voyage metaphor, linking each column to start, stop, continue actions.
Give each participant five minutes to silently add sticky notes to the three columns: successes in Keep Sailing, risks in Avoid Icebergs, ideas in Set New Courses.
Group similar notes together, then discuss each column, allowing the team to elaborate on the most impactful items.
Prioritize the top three items from Set New Courses and agree on concrete actions with owners and due dates.
Summarize the agreed actions and capture them in a shared document for follow‑up.
Close the session by thanking the team and reflecting on the retrospective itself.
Pro Tips
Use emojis or icons on the board to keep the nautical theme engaging and memorable.
Limit each column to 8‑10 items to keep discussion focused and timeboxed.
Assign a timekeeper to ensure each phase stays within the allocated minutes.
FAQ
What if the team adds too many items to a column?
Cluster similar notes and vote for the most important ones, then limit discussion to the top‑voted items.
How do we handle dominant voices during the discussion?
Facilitator should actively invite quieter members to share and use round‑robin speaking to ensure balanced input.
Can we run this retrospective without a physical board?
Yes, use a virtual board tool like Miro or Mural; the steps remain the same, just replace sticky notes with digital cards.
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At a glance
- Duration
45–60 min
- Team Size
4-12 people
- Columns
3 columns
- Base Format
Start, Stop, Continue
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