Are you searching Google for "sprint retrospective meeting questions"? Then you've landed in the right place. In this article, I'm going to give you some sprint retrospective meeting examples that you can use for your retrospectives. What makes this special is that it's all about the number "3". That's why there are 3 in-demand retrospectives here with 3 questions each:
Sprint Retrospective Meeting Questions
1. The Start Stop Keep Retrospective 🔖:
Let's start with a classic method. The Start-Stop-Keep retrospective asks three simple questions about what your team should start, stop, and keep in the next retrospective. Since we have found that it is easiest to start the retrospective with the question "What should be kept?" we usually make this retrospective 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 get the team to answer your retrospective questions. A rather 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 to sit in front of a warm fire and think about the past and the future? – I would not recommend lighting a fire in the office, but for that we have created this beautiful campfire retrospective:
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 Sought After 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 pretty sure it will be very popular in the future as well. Try it and you will see why 😉 .
