The Sprint Retrospective Exercise

Sprint Retrospective is a creative and engaging strategy that allows you to evaluate and review a task or project that your group completed. The title of the activity is related to one of the work stages of agile methodologies

In advance, gather a number of small construction paper cutouts of different colors in a bag. Assemble your group into a circle and announce that you have a bag with several coloured papers inside it.

Explain that the different colours represent different topics of conversation for a particular person to share. For example, yellow means something positive, red means something negative, and green means an improvement.

When the bag is passed around the circle, ask each person to randomly pull one item out. In this way, everyone will be able to give their opinion and assessment of the team’s performance in the project carried out.

Pass the bag to the first person, and invite them to share their thoughts according to the colour of the paper they pull out of the bag. Continue passing the bag, inviting everyone to share.

If you consider it necessary, you can do more than one round to enrich the retrospective.

Moment of Reflectión

Make sure that the group is clear about the positive points (strengths) of the work dynamics in order to repeat them. And think of actions for the points that can be improved.

In relation to the negative points (weaknesses) they have to think about how to avoid them or minimize their impact if they are unavoidable.

The topics of this publication: integration, empathy, interactions, reflection, foster relationships, honesty, trust, teamwork, collaboration, cooperation, adaptability skills, strategy, planning, adaptation