aj-geddes/retrospective-facilitation
skills/retrospective-facilitation/SKILL.md
Facilitate effective retrospectives to capture lessons learned, celebrate successes, and identify actionable improvements for future iterations.
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Retrospective Facilitation
Table of Contents
- Overview
- When to Use
- Quick Start
- Reference Guides
- Best Practices
Overview
Retrospectives are critical ceremonies for team learning and continuous improvement. Effective facilitation creates psychological safety, encourages honest feedback, and drives tangible improvements.
When to Use
- End of sprint (regular cadence)
- Major milestone completion
- Project closure
- After significant events or incidents
- Team transitions or staff changes
- Technology implementations
- Process evaluations
Quick Start
Minimal working example:
Retrospective Planning:
Event: Sprint 23 Retrospective
Date: Friday, Jan 17, 2025
Duration: 60 minutes
Location: Conference Room B / Zoom
Facilitator: Sarah (Scrum Master)
Participants: 8 team members
Invite: Product Owner (optional)
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Retrospective Goals: 1. Celebrate sprint successes
2. Identify what went well
3. Identify what could improve
4. Commit to specific improvements
5. Build team cohesion
Format: "Went Well / Didn't Go Well / Ideas"
Tool: Miro board for virtual collaboration
Pre-Retrospective Preparation:
- Send survey: anonymous feedback (24hrs before)
- Gather sprint metrics (velocity, bugs, etc.)
- Review sprint goals and outcomes
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Reference Guides
Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:
| Guide | Contents | |---|---| | Retrospective Planning | Retrospective Planning | | Facilitation Techniques | Facilitation Techniques | | Action Item Tracking | Action Item Tracking | | Retrospective Templates | Retrospective Templates |
Best Practices
✅ DO
- Hold retrospectives regularly (every sprint)
- Create psychological safety upfront
- Use varied formats to maintain engagement
- Include the whole team
- Focus on systems, not individuals
- Convert insights to specific action items
- Assign clear owners and due dates
- Track and celebrate completed actions
- Review previous actions at start
- Thank people for participation and honesty
❌ DON'T
- Blame individuals or teams
- Let dominant voices control discussion
- Create action items without owners
- Have retrospectives without follow-up
- Ignore difficult feedback
- Focus only on what went wrong
- Hold retrospectives when people are tired/stressed
- Skip closing/celebration
- Mix retrospectives with status meetings
- Ignore patterns across multiple retrospectives
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