3 Sought After Sprint Retrospective Meeting Questions
Are you searching Google for “Sprint Retrospective Meeting Questions”? Then you’ve come to the right place. In this article, I will introduce you to some examples of Sprint Retrospective meetings that you can use for your retrospectives. The special thing about it: everything revolves around the number “3”. That’s why there are 3 popular retrospectives here, each with 3 questions:
Sprint Retrospective Meeting Questions
1. The Start Stop Keep Retrospective 🔖:
Let’s start with a classic method. In the Start-Stop-Keep retrospective, three simple questions are asked about what your team should start, stop, and keep doing at the next retrospective. Since we’ve found that it’s easiest to start the retrospective with the question “What should be kept”, we usually turn this retrospective into the “keep stop start” retrospective:
Open Feedback Questions
Keep: What should we keep?
Stop: What should we stop doing?
Start: What should we start doing?
Sprint Retrospective Meeting Questions
2. The Mad Sad Glad Retrospective 😯:
The “mad sad glad” retrospective follows a similar pattern but uses three common emotions to encourage the team to answer your retrospective questions. A quite simple but fascinating retrospective format:
Open Feedback Questions
What made you mad? 😤
What made you sad? 😢
What made you glad? 🤩
Sprint Retrospective Meeting Questions
3. The Campfire Retrospective 🔥:
Who doesn’t like sitting in front of a warm fire and reflecting on the past and the future? - I wouldn’t recommend lighting a fire in the office, but we’ve created this beautiful campfire retrospective for that purpose:
Open Feedback Questions
Warm fire: What made you feel good in the last sprint?
Turned to ashes: What did not work as desired and crumbled to ashes?
The shooting star: What do you wish for the future?
Conclusion - 3 Popular Sprint Retrospective Meeting Questions
In this article, I have selected the two popular retrospectives “start stop keep” and “mad sad glad” and added my own creation “The Campfire Retrospective”. I am quite sure that it will also be very popular in the future. Give it a try and you will see why 😉 .
