Easy As Pie
Easy As Pie is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Start For Free Easy As Pie Retrospective What is this activity?
- Easy As Pie is a good retrospective activity to look for improvements, apologize for personal mistakes, present new ideas, and to recognize the good things.
- Shoo Fly Pie Identify something negative that is hampering the team and that you want to remove.
- Pie in the Sky Present an idea that may be ‘impossible’ - a stretch goal, fanciful idea, or plan.
- Easy As Pie - Recognize something that was simple and pleasurable that you believe the team should continue doing.
- Ask the participants to think about each slice of the pie, take notes on sticky notes(one idea or thought per sticky note), and then place them on the pie slice accordingly.
- Identify something negative that is hampering the team and that you want to remove
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Prompts to use +
Start For Free Easy As Pie Retrospective What is this activity?
Easy As Pie is a good retrospective activity to look for improvements, apologize for personal mistakes, present new ideas, and to recognize the good things.
Shoo Fly Pie Identify something negative that is hampering the team and that you want to remove.
Pie in the Sky Present an idea that may be ‘impossible’ - a stretch goal, fanciful idea, or plan.
Easy As Pie - Recognize something that was simple and pleasurable that you believe the team should continue doing.
Ask the participants to think about each slice of the pie, take notes on sticky notes(one idea or thought per sticky note), and then place them on the pie slice accordingly.
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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: Easy As Pie. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Start For Free Easy As Pie Retrospective What is this activity?; Easy As Pie is a good retrospective activity to look for improvements, apologize for personal mistakes, present new ideas, and to recognize the good things.; Shoo Fly Pie Identify something negative that is hampering the team and that you want to remove.; Pie in the Sky Present an idea that may be ‘impossible’ - a stretch goal, fanciful idea, or plan.. 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.