DORA & SPACE metrics: 2 templates, questions & 1 tool

Random Icebreaker (2-5 minutes)

Echometer provides you with a generator for random check-in questions.

Review of open actions (2-5 minutes)

Before starting with new topics, you should talk about what has become of the measures from past retrospectives to check their effectiveness. Echometer automatically lists all open action items from past retros.

Health Check

All team members can answer the health checks anonymously on a scale. Then go through the results of the health checks together and record any additional comments if necessary. If you use the same health checks in several retrospectives, you can also track trends over time in Echometer.

• Deployment Frequency: I am very happy with how often we deploy code to Prod.
• Lead Time for Changes: After the first code has been committed, we can implement it very quickly on Prod.
• Change Failure Rate: Our code implementations very rarely lead to errors on Prod.
• Time to Restore Service: If an error occurs on Prod, we can fix it very quickly.

Discuss retro topics

Use the following open questions to collect your most important findings. First, everyone does it themselves, covered. Echometer allows you to reveal each column of the retro board individually in order to then present and group the feedback.

• What would improve our deployment frequency?
• What is our bottleneck to implement tasks faster on Prod?
• What would make our deployments less error-prone?
• What helps us to quickly rectify errors on Prod?

Catch-all question (Recommended)

So that other topics also have a place:

• What else would you like to talk about in the retro?

Prioritization / Voting (5 minutes)

On the retro board in Echometer, you can easily prioritize the feedback with voting. The voting is of course anonymous.

Define actions (10-20 minutes)

You can create a linked action via the plus symbol on a feedback. Not sure which measure would be the right one? Then open a whiteboard on the topic via the plus symbol instead to brainstorm root causes and possible measures.

Checkout / Closing (5 minutes)

Echometer enables you to collect anonymous feedback from the team on how helpful the retro was. This creates the ROTI score ("Return On Time Invested"), which you can track over time.

Random Icebreaker (2-5 minutes)

Echometer provides you with a generator for random check-in questions.

Review of open actions (2-5 minutes)

Before starting with new topics, you should talk about what has become of the measures from past retrospectives to check their effectiveness. Echometer automatically lists all open action items from past retros.

Health Check

All team members can answer the health checks anonymously on a scale. Then go through the results of the health checks together and record any additional comments if necessary. If you use the same health checks in several retrospectives, you can also track trends over time in Echometer.

• Satisfaction: Looking at the last few weeks, I am very satisfied with my work.
• Performance: When I look at our last steps, we were a really productive team.
• Activity: If you look at the level of activity in the tools we use (e.g. responsiveness in chats, mutual feedback), we are a really engaged team.
• Collaboration & Collaboration: We improve as a team through intensive communication, collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Efficiency & Flow: We complete most tasks quickly and without delays or interruptions.

Discuss retro topics

Use the following open questions to collect your most important findings. First, everyone does it themselves, covered. Echometer allows you to reveal each column of the retro board individually in order to then present and group the feedback.

Catch-all question (Recommended)

So that other topics also have a place:

• What else would you like to talk about in the retro?

Prioritization / Voting (5 minutes)

On the retro board in Echometer, you can easily prioritize the feedback with voting. The voting is of course anonymous.

Define actions (10-20 minutes)

You can create a linked action via the plus symbol on a feedback. Not sure which measure would be the right one? Then open a whiteboard on the topic via the plus symbol instead to brainstorm root causes and possible measures.

Checkout / Closing (5 minutes)

Echometer enables you to collect anonymous feedback from the team on how helpful the retro was. This creates the ROTI score ("Return On Time Invested"), which you can track over time.