Xmas Retro!
Why do this workshop?
This seasonal retrospective template helps you and your team wrap up the year in a festive style. This template comes with a check-in icebreaker, a sprint retrospective, and futurespective closing activity.
Facilitation guidance
Set the scene (5 minutes)
From the festive Santa which one best represents how you're feeling? Let participants share why that image resonates with them, or pick their favorite holiday gif or image instead.
Generate Insights (20 minutes)
Ghost of Christmas Past; Looking back, what did we learn from experimenting, testing, and from working with each other this sprint? Anything we could have done differently...
Ghost of Christmas Present; What did you like about the last sprint? This could be anything from a process, an achievement, a particular team action, or even a technology.
Ghost of Christmas to come (Future); What is something that we wish existed or was possible in the future? What hopes and concerns do we have looking ahead...
Decide what to do and discuss actions/next steps (20 minutes)
Affinity sort the sticky notes, by grouping related concepts and ideas together.
Dot voting - participants can vote using the "Christmas Bauble" icons on topics they'd like to prioritize for discussion. It's up to them how they distribute these e.g. vote on their own ideas, pump all 6 onto one card, etc.
Discuss the "What", "So What" and "Now What" for each highly voted sticky note.
Close - shake the snow globe
Make a New Year's Resolution; what will you commit to stop, start and continue doing as an individual within this team?
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