Quarantine Retro
Quarantine Retro 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 Quarantine Retro Retrospective What is this activity?
- To start the retrospective, the facilitator will share the team’s key data points to provide insight on the team's progress throughout the sprint and current PI.
- The team will then discuss the data points and call out any key accomplishments during the sprint.
- The team will be asked to use the virtual board to write post-its for each category applicable to the sprint.
- (Time boxed to 5 mins.) The team members will then discuss the post-its, grouping them when necessary and voting for agreement.
- Once all the categorized items have been reviewed, the team will identify action items/goals they would like to commit to moving forward in the next sprint.
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Start For Free Quarantine Retro Retrospective What is this activity?
To start the retrospective, the facilitator will share the team’s key data points to provide insight on the team's progress throughout the sprint and current PI.
The team will then discuss the data points and call out any key accomplishments during the sprint.
The team will be asked to use the virtual board to write post-its for each category applicable to the sprint.
(Time boxed to 5 mins.) The team members will then discuss the post-its, grouping them when necessary and voting for agreement.
Once all the categorized items have been reviewed, the team will identify action items/goals they would like to commit to moving forward in the next sprint.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Quarantine Retro. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Start For Free Quarantine Retro Retrospective What is this activity?; To start the retrospective, the facilitator will share the team’s key data points to provide insight on the team's progress throughout the sprint and current PI.; The team will then discuss the data points and call out any key accomplishments during the sprint.; The team will be asked to use the virtual board to write post-its for each category applicable to 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.
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