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Baseball Retrospective

Baseball Retrospective is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.

5 to 15 minutesTIME
PairsGROUP SIZE
QuietENERGY
In personSETTING
Medium cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Learning Transfer This reflection and learning exercise strengthens Learning Transfer, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

  1. Start For Free Baseball Retrospective Retrospective What is this activity?
  2. Start off with gauging initial reaction to the sprint with a press conference.
  3. Foul Balls What can we adjust to turn it into a hit in the next sprint?
  4. Template created by: Jeremy Lukawski Has been used 122 times Create Free Board Baseball Retrospective Template Press Conference In three words, describe the sprint?
  5. What was not good Outs What was not good Foul Balls What can we adjust to turn it into a hit in the next sprint?
  6. We've helped teams improve in more than 1,000,000 retrospectives Company About Us Pricing Features Contact Us What's New Wall of Love Give Back
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Prompts to use +

Start For Free Baseball Retrospective Retrospective What is this activity?

Start off with gauging initial reaction to the sprint with a press conference.

Foul Balls What can we adjust to turn it into a hit in the next sprint?

Template created by: Jeremy Lukawski Has been used 122 times Create Free Board Baseball Retrospective Template Press Conference In three words, describe the sprint?

What was not good Outs What was not good Foul Balls What can we adjust to turn it into a hit in the next sprint?

We've helped teams improve in more than 1,000,000 retrospectives Company About Us Pricing Features Contact Us What's New Wall of Love Give Back

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Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local model: paste this prompt and your AI will co-facilitate this exercise with you.

Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Baseball Retrospective. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Start For Free Baseball Retrospective Retrospective What is this activity?; Start off with gauging initial reaction to the sprint with a press conference.; Foul Balls What can we adjust to turn it into a hit in the next sprint?; Template created by: Jeremy Lukawski Has been used 122 times Create Free Board Baseball Retrospective Template Press Conference In three words, describe the sprint?. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.

Origin unverified

  • Where we observed it: The current corpus has one observed source organization: EasyRetro. (1 source observed, including EasyRetro.)
  • What that means: we track where an exercise has been observed in public sources. We do not claim to know who created it, or how popular it is.
  • No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
  • Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.

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