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The Stop Start Continue Retrospective is a classic when it comes to agile retrospectives. Of course, it's no wonder that one or the other team has already held them many times and is looking for something different (I'll show you alternatives later)👀.
But just as often it happens that due to the popularity of the Start Stop Continue retrospective, people are looking for examples to make it even better in the future🔍
Start Stop Continue Examples
The 3 questions to ask at the Start Stop Continue Retrospective🤔.
First things first: From my point of view, the "Start Stop Continue Retro" is an optimization retro. In fact, the three questions asked in the Start Stop Continue Retrospective cover all the basic questions regarding the activities optimization of a Sprint.
🌞What should we launch because it makes the upcoming sprint better?
☔What should we leave alone because it makes the upcoming sprint better?
⚡What should we definitely keep because it worked great?
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Start Stop Continue Questions + Examples
Open Feedback Questions
Continue: What should we keep?
Stop: What should we stop doing?
Start: What should we start doing?
As can be seen in the diagram, there are the following three questions of the "Start Stop Continue Retro"👀
What do we want to launch? (Start)⚗️
💡Example: You have the feeling that not everyone in your team dares to speak up. So the so-called "psychological safety" should be improved. So you could start to do an agile team Health Check in 3 steps in the team.
👉🏽More information about: "psychological safety" or " Team Health Checks in 3 steps".
What do we want to let be? (Stop)⛔️
Example: You were very unhappy with the new tool that is supposed to help with prioritization & transparency of the product backlog. It should definitely not be used any further.
What do we want to keep? (Continue)✅
💡Example: It's good to look at agile metrics like your team's velocity from time to time – that's been going well lately!
👉🏽More information about: "agile metrics".
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Start Stop Continue Alternatives
Please not too much of a good thing!🙅🏽♀️
As popular as the Start Stop Continue Retro may be, this retrospective can become monotonous. Too much monotony can pose real dangers that go beyond boredom. That's why we'll give you a few suitable alternatives below to prevent this monotony from occurring in the first place💤
Change of perspective: As described in the introduction, the Start Stop Continue Retro is a retro that is very much aimed at optimizing activities. However, agile working is a much more complex topic than just "optimizing activities"🚀
With the Mad Sad Glad Retrospective For example, you can also take a closer look at the negative emotions that prevail in the team during a lean period👻.
👉🏽More information about: " Mad Sad Glad Retrospective
Also, a retro, like the DAKI (Drop Add Keep Improve) Retro, add another interesting dimension to the Start Stop Continue Retro and thus expand the horizon🌍.
👉🏽More information about the DAKI Retro
Or you simply want to approach a retro with a little more fun and therefore choose, for example, the Soccer Retrospective⚽
👉🏽More information about the Soccer retro
I could go on with this list forever. If you're interested in seeing not just these three, but 22 alternatives to the Start Stop Continue retrospective, feel free to read our blog article on them: 22 Refreshing Agile Retrospective Templates in 2023
Conclusion – Start Stop Continue Retrospective
I could write for hours about the Start Stop Continue retrospective, but I really don't want to make it more complicated than it is.
So if you're looking for a crisp retro to reveal optimization potential in your team, Start Stop Continue Retrospective has you covered🎉
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