🦃🍂 Agile Thanksgiving
Gather around our Agile Thanksgiving table! Reflect on what’s been bountiful, what we should carve away, and what traditions we cherish to keep moving forward. Let’s express gratitude for our teamwork and feast on insights together!
Şablon Sütunları
🦃 New Recipes to Try
Contribute fresh ideas or practices to bring to our team feast and try moving forward.
Temel sütun: Start🍂 Leftovers to Toss
Identify the habits or processes that are no longer serving us and need to be left behind.
Temel sütun: Stop🍁 Traditions to Continue
Highlight the valuable practices and successful approaches we should carry forward together.
Temel sütun: ContinueBu şablon hakkında
The Agile Thanksgiving retrospective celebrates teamwork by reflecting on achievements, addressing areas for improvement, and maintaining valuable practices in a festive and collaborative environment.
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Use this retrospective when you want to foster gratitude within the team while identifying key action points to improve and continue successful practices.
Nasıl kolaylaştırılır
Welcome the team and explain the theme of the Agile Thanksgiving retrospective, emphasizing the festive spirit combined with productive reflection.
Introduce the three columns: New Recipes to Try (new ideas), Leftovers to Toss (practices to stop), and Traditions to Continue (successful practices to sustain). Clarify that contributions should be aimed at enhancing team performance and atmosphere.
Allocate time for team members to reflect silently and add their thoughts to each column using sticky notes, ensuring everyone contributes.
Encourage the team to cluster similar ideas within each column and group related items together.
Facilitate a group discussion by reviewing the clusters in each category. Prioritize items that resonate most with the team or have the largest potential impact.
Set action steps for the items in each category, ensuring that new ideas are actionable, eliminated habits are agreed upon, and continued practices are codified.
Conclude the session by thanking everyone for their participation and summarizing the agreed action steps.
Optionally, add a closing activity where team members can express something they are grateful for within the team.
Profesyonel İpuçları
Consider introducing a fun activity to break the ice, such as sharing each person's favorite Thanksgiving tradition.
Encourage balanced reflection by emphasizing gratitude even when discussing negatives.
Keep the atmosphere lighthearted while maintaining focus on actionable feedback.
Prepare a brief summary of team objectives to help focus ideas in each column.
Use visuals or festive decorations on your digital board to set the mood.
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How do I handle a dominant personality in the discussion?
Encourage equal participation by directly inviting quieter team members to share their input and setting time limits for comments.
What if the team struggles to generate ideas?
Use probing questions to guide thinking, such as 'What has recently felt successful?' or 'What challenges have we faced lately?'
Can this retrospective be used outside of the Thanksgiving timeframe?
Yes, the holiday theme can be adapted or renamed to fit another context while maintaining the same reflective structure.
Bir bakışta
- Süre
45–60 min
- Takım Boyutu
4-10 kişi
- Sütunlar
3 sütun
- Temel Format
Start, Stop, Continue
Etiketler
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