Retrospective templates
23 ready-to-use formats for retros, planning and team health — every one a single click when you create a board, and fully customizable after.
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The proven formats most teams start with — simple, fast and hard to get wrong.
Classic Retrospective
The timeless what went well / what didn’t / actions format.
Best for: Any team’s regular sprint retro — the default for a reason.
Start, Stop, Continue
Decide what to start doing, stop doing, and keep doing.
Best for: Teams drowning in process — the “Stop” column earns its keep.
Mad, Sad, Glad
Explore the team’s emotional temperature over the sprint.
Best for: After a rough release or stressful period, when feelings matter more than process.
4Ls
Liked, Learned, Lacked, Longed for.
Best for: Learning-focused reviews — great after finishing a project phase.
KALM
Keep, Add, Less, More — tune team behaviours.
Best for: Fine-tuning how an already-healthy team works together.
DAKI
Drop, Add, Keep, Improve.
Best for: Decisive teams that want concrete process changes, not just discussion.
Plus / Delta
Simple two-column: what’s working, what to change.
Best for: Short check-ins and time-boxed retros under 30 minutes.
Creative
Metaphor formats that reframe familiar complaints and surface longer-term concerns.
Sailboat
Wind, anchors, rocks and the island — a voyage metaphor.
Best for: Zooming out to goals and risks when weekly formats feel stale.
Hot Air Balloon
What lifts the team up and what weighs it down.
Best for: Balancing reflection (what drags us) with foresight (what’s ahead).
Starfish
Keep, Less, More, Stop, Start — five ways to adjust.
Best for: Mature teams who want more nuance than Start/Stop/Continue.
Three Little Pigs
Straw, sticks and bricks — how solid is what we build?
Best for: Engineering teams reviewing technical debt and robustness.
Rose, Bud, Thorn
Wins, growth opportunities, and pain points.
Best for: Gentle, positive framing — good for newer or mixed-discipline teams.
Superhero Retro
Superpowers, kryptonite and the villains we face.
Best for: Injecting energy when retro fatigue sets in.
Team health
Formats about how the team feels, not just how the work went.
Energy Levels
Check in on how the team is really feeling.
Best for: Spotting burnout early — run monthly alongside your normal retro.
Team Health Check
Delivery, collaboration, learning and fun.
Best for: A quarterly temperature check across the dimensions that matter.
Appreciation Retro
Celebrate each other — kudos and thanks.
Best for: End of quarter, after a big launch, or whenever morale needs a boost.
Planning
Look forward instead of back — retros aren’t the only thing boards are good at.
Sprint Planning
Goals, capacity and risks going into the sprint.
Best for: Kicking off a sprint with shared, visible commitments.
Lean Coffee
To discuss, discussing, discussed — democratic agenda.
Best for: Meetings without a fixed agenda — the votes decide what gets talked about.
SWOT
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats.
Best for: Strategy sessions and product reviews beyond the sprint cycle.
Pre-mortem
Imagine the project failed — why? Prevent it now.
Best for: Before starting anything big — surface risk while it’s still cheap to fix.
Feedback
Deeper-dive formats for reviews, incidents and one-on-ones.
One-on-One
Structure a recurring 1:1 conversation.
Best for: Managers who want 1:1s to be more than a status update.
Project Post-mortem
A deeper dive after a project or incident ends.
Best for: Incidents and finished projects that deserve a thorough look back.
Feedback Grid
Likes, criticisms, questions, and ideas.
Best for: Design reviews, demos and gathering structured input on anything.
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