awesome-retrospectives

Team reflection toolkit

A curated collection of resources and tools to facilitate retrospectives in software teams.

A curated list of resources for facilitating and learning about retrospectives

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Awesome Retrospectives / Retrospective Basics

Ultimate Guide to Agile Retrospectives A deep dive into effective retrospectives
What is a Retrospective? An introduction to retrospectives
The Retrospective Prime Directive The key to running successful retrospectives
How to Run an Online Sprint Retrospective A step-by-step guide to running remote retrospectives

Awesome Retrospectives / Retrospective Plans & Activities

Retromat A large collection of activities and a planning tool which can be used to share your plan with others
Fun Retrospectives A large collection of activities and ideas for retrospectives
loveagile.com A small collection of retrospective activities
Agile Retrospective Resource Wiki A collection of retrospective activities and their use cases
Hyper Island Toolbox A collection of energizers and activities for unlocking insight and building a strong team
Lego Retrospective An activity using Lego for when you have issues with some team members dominating meetings or others not leaning in
Safety Check An activity for measuring how comfortable everyone feels sharing their views, useful for forming teams or when new team members join
Squad Health Check An activity for visualizing what to improve that can be used across teams from Spotify
The Happiness Door An activity for measuring happiness
Kudo Cards A practice for continuously sharing feedback and building intrinsic motivation
Gamestorming A collection of games and tools
Retrospective Questions A collection of facilitator questions to use in retrospectives

Awesome Retrospectives / Distributed Retrospective Tools

Confluence 💰 - Content collaboration software with retrospective templates
EasyRetro 💰 - Distributed retrospective board with voting
Google Docs Collaborative document editing
Google Drawings Collaborative drawing
GoRetro Run team retrospectives easily, quickly, and absolutely free
Ideaboardz 🆓 - Distributed retrospective board with voting and export functionality
Kudobox 🆓 - Share Kudo cards on Twitter
Metro Retro 💰 - Distributed retrospective tools with a number of retrospective activities
Parabol 💰 - Open-source retrospective tool with integrations to GitHub, Jira, and Slack with commercial options available
Postfacto 🆓 - Open-source and self-hosted retro tool aimed at helping remote teams
Rapport 🆓 - Retro tool for distributed or remote teams
Retrium 💰 - Distributed retrospective tools with a number of retrospective activities
Retro Cadence 💰 Distributed retrospective tools with a number of retrospective activities
Retrobot 💰 - Distributed retrospective board with a number of retrospective templates
Retroloop 🆓 - Easy-to-use, open-source tool for facilitating agile retrospectives
RetroTool 💰 - Simple, fun and flexible tool for remote retrospectives used by thousands of people around the world
ScatterSpoke 💰 - Distributed retrospective board with export functionality
Scrumlr.io 🆓 - An open-source and well-designed web app for collaborative online retrospectives, featuring timers, voting capabilities, and the option to use the entire app anonymously
Sprint Boards 💰 - Modern retrospective tool for Agile developers with support for third party services including Trello and Jira
Teaminal 💰 - Async standup, retro, and sprint planning tool for distributed teams
TeamRetro 💰 - Distributed retrospective tools with multiple activities, action tracking and automated idea grouping
TeleRetro 💰 - Distributed retrospective tool with ice-breaker music, gifs and emojis
Trello 💰 - Boards, lists, and cards

Awesome Retrospectives / Books About Retrospectives

Retrospectives Antipatterns Learn how to improve retrospectives by avoiding common pitfalls
Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great A book on using retrospectives to improve teams
Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Reviews One of the earliest books on running retrospectives
The Retrospective Handbook . Great tips and advice for facilitating retrospectives
Fun Retrospectives . A book covering a number of retrospective activities by the same people behind the site of the same name
Agile Retrospectives A bundle of 6 ebooks on retrospectives from Leanpub including Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives, Fun Retrospectives, Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your Retrospectives, The Retrospective Handbook, Agile Retrospective Kickstarter and Retrospectives for Organizational Change
Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers . Learn how to create an engaging and creative environment with gamestorming
Building a Better Business Using the Lego Serious Play Method . Use Lego Serious Play to improve meetings

Awesome Retrospectives / Articles About Retrospectives

Inside Atlassian: Seven Steps for Better Retrospectives Tips for structuring and facilitating retrospectives from Atlassian
5 Steps to Better Agile Retrospectives Advice on structuring retrospectives from Trello
Retrospective Fatigue? How to Increase Follow-Through on Action Items Advice on getting teams to complete retrospective commitments
The Infinite Hows A critique of the Five Whys technique and an alternate approach for better root cause analysis retrospectives
A 7-Step Agenda for Effective Retrospectives Advice on creating a solid retrospective structure that keeps your team focused

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