The “Pleasure & Gain” retrospective including direct access
Many Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches and other agile practitioners are looking for fresh retro ideas - such as the “Pleasure and Gain” retrospective. What could it be? Don’t worry, I’ll explain the retrospective format below.
Agile Retrospective Pleasure and Gain compared to other retros
The special thing about the “Pleasure and Gain” retrospective is: You don’t just collect feedback. You talk about a specific situation, a part of the last sprint or the last few weeks - and then look at it from two perspectives: From the perspective of pleasure and gain.
Agile Retrospective Pleasure and Gain
What a pleasure to win 😎
This is also the reason why you typically have two axes with two sides. When doing this retrospective on a (digital) whiteboard, it typically looks like this.
So the opposite of pleasure is pain. And the opposite of gain is loss.
In some teams (those with a lot of experience), you simply have to give them the graph above and they can start to type. In other teams (those that need some more instructions), you might ask the following questions.
- Looking at the last sprint / last weeks, what gave you pleasure?
- What gave you pain? Was it worth the gain it hopefully created?
- What caused a loss - did we somehow gain anything from it?
As you might have noticed, you can add up on these questions. One other tip can be to name a specific situation:
- Looking at our new Daily format: What about it created pleasure for you? What did we loose using it?
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Conclusion - Agile Retrospective “Pleasure and Gain”
Well, it was a pleasure to give you a brief overview of how this retro might bring you gains 😉 Check out our 32 Retrospective Ideas for beginners and professionals - might also be of interest to you.
