⏱️ Length
45–75 minutes
🔁 Frequency
End of each sprint or once per month
🧑🤝🧑 Who Attends
Core delivery team - sometimes extended to cross-functional collaborators
🎯 Purpose
To reflect on how the team is working together and identify improvements
📋 Agenda
- What went well
- What didn’t go well
- What will we change next
- Action item follow-up from last retro
📍Format
Live (remote or hybrid), with async prep encouraged
📎 Tool Stack
- Comms: Slack
- Docs: Notion
- Scheduling: Slumpbeat
💡 Tips
- Rotate facilitators to keep it fresh
- Bring in objective outsiders to facilitate of topic is sensitive and everyone needs to be focus on the topic at hand
- Keep it psychologically safe: no blame, just learning
- Use a different format (e.g. “mad/sad/glad”) now and then
Contributor: Team Slumpbeat