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Feeling heard, seen, and respected is the basis of good teamwork. Try this meeting to build empathy and learn how to communicate better.
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How well does your team embody the Scrum Values? Take a look with the Scrum Values retrospective and identify improvements.
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Great work doesn’t happen by accident. What habits, practices, and processes will help your team work well together?
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Reflect on Christmas past, present, and future with this creative retrospective template. Spread some cheer and give end of year kudos!
Check in with your team after big changes or before big decisions. This meeting template helps you collect feedback from your team or org!
Celebrate light and welcome good fortune with this festive Diwali retro template. Try it before or during Diwali to reflect on team prosperity.
With Parabol's Thanksgiving retrospective you can consider workplace traditions old and new. Share some thanks, gratitude, and pie, as well!
Delve into that unique team dynamic by imagining yourselves as a team of agile superheroes. A fun retrospective format to try in Parabol.
The easiest way to run a team charter brainstorming session. Gather as a team and collaborate to define what you stand for.
A year end retrospective template to help you look back and plan for the future. Try this template for your final retro of the year!
Keep Problem Try (KPT) is more than a meeting template. It’s a way to learn from how you’ve worked in the past and do better in future.
SaMoLo might sound like a musical scale, or even a type of fish. But actually, it’s a powerful retro format. Try it with your team today!
The highlights and lowlights retrospective helps you think about how you can create more of your highlights, and avoid the lowlights in the future.
The Always Be Learning retrospective helps you have a serious talk about learning goals. It's perfect for personal, 1:1, and annual retros.
Surprised, worried, inspired helps you dive into your feelings about work in a safe and productive way. Here's how it works.
The Hands on Deck retrospective meeting is a chance for colleagues to share strengths and challenges to work better together.
The Hero's Journey retro imagines your team as an intrepid party of explorers on a quest to find hidden treasure. Here's how it works.
Discover the classic retro that started it all! Spark discussion and inspire teams to look deeply at how they work together.
Talk about your feelings with a retro that's made for sharing. Openly discuss hopes and fears to get on the same page about expectations.
WRAP is a flexible retrospective with gratitude baked in. Express your wishes, puzzles, and risks while giving some kudos to your team-mates.
Start your engines with this lightning-fast retrospective template. Have a conversation about how to go faster and improve sprint velocity.
Identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats with this SWOT retrospective activity. Perfect for strategic planning and reviews.
If you love zombies, free candy, and retrospectives, then we’ve got a trick (or treat) for you. Try this Halloween retrospective for scarily good team improvement.
Reach new heights with a Hot Air Balloon retrospective and futurespective idea that’s fun, playful, and optimistic.
Apply Marie Kondo's mentality to your next retro or lessons learned meeting. Think back, look inward, and declutter how you work.
Rose Thorn Bud retrospectives help your team blossom. Focus on the beauty of your progress, the painful moments, and areas for growth.
The Six Thinking Hats technique is a design thinking framework meant to deepen creative and critical thinking processes.
What Went Well is a lightweight retro that focuses on the outcomes of your sprint. Discuss what to do better next time.
Starfish retros give clarity on what teams need to start and stop, but also a greater sense of what an team needs more or less of to succeed.
The Working and Stuck retrospective is one of the simplest retrospective templates – just the thing your team needs to pull out of a rut.
DAKI retrospectives can help your team spring clean working practices. Choose what to drop and add and what to keep and improve.
Lean Coffee is an agenda-less meeting format for agile teams. Brainstorm ideas to discuss, and work through them in a structured way
Winning Streak retrospectives help you reflect on your team successes, so you can replicate them time and time again.
Check the pulse of your team with the Energy Levels retro. Find out what energizes your team and what’s draining them.
The Three Little Pigs retro uses a familiar fairytale to help you investigate what parts of your teamwork and processes are weak or strong.
The Sailboat retrospective swims in metaphor. Reflect on wind (support), anchors (blockers) & rocks (risks) that could emerge in your work.
Even a light hike can be strenuous, but that strain is often what inspires reflection. Try the Mountain Climber retro for a strenuous retro.
The Mad Sad Glad retro template lets you explore the team's mood & what's contributing to it. Good for teams going through change.
The Start, Stop, Continue retrospective is a solid starter idea for teams to gather simple, effective ideas for continuous improvement.
If you've got a retrospective format that works for you - bring it with you! Parabol lets you customize existing templates or build your own.
4Ls retrospectives prompt your team to share stories about the last sprint. Great for experienced teams ready to level up.
