Retrospective templates

The format decides what the team notices. Five that cover most retros: what each one surfaces, when to reach for it, and a board ready to run.

Start / Stop / Continue

Start / Stop / Continue is the format most teams learn first, and the one most teams come back to.

Start · Stop · Continue

Good / Bad / Start / Stop does one thing the three column formats cannot: it separates noticing from deciding.

Good · Bad · Start · Stop

Mad / Sad / Glad asks how the sprint felt rather than how it ran.

Mad · Sad · Glad

The four Ls (Liked, Learned, Lacked, Longed for) is the format to reach for when the period under review is longer than a sprint.

Liked · Learned · Lacked · Longed for

The sailboat retrospective is the one format here that looks forward as much as back.

Wind · Anchors · Rocks · Island

None of these fit?

Build a board with your own columns, up to eight, named and coloured however your team works.