Running a Retrospective

Only one retrospective can be open and active in a Team Room at a time. However, you can continue a retrospective at any point.

As the facilitator you have the option to give the position to anyone else in your Team Room.

A retrospective activity can end after all phases have been completed, or the facilitator can end the retro at any point during.

When you are in the Team Room Home or Retrospective tab, the left sidebar shows a list of everyone who has access to the Team Room.

Anonymity is important in retrospectives because it helps establish trust and psychological safety. Retrium helps you preserve anonymity and psychological safety.

Collaboratively brainstorm and view the text during the Think phase of a column-style retrospective.

Timeboxing helps keep team members on track to make meetings more efficient.

The role and responsibility of any retrospective facilitator is to help keep the retro focused and productive.

The most common retrospective method involves team members adding sticky notes to labeled columns. Retrium helps you, the facilitator, lead your team through this process with a five-phase activity.

The most common retrospective method involves team members adding sticky notes to labeled columns. Retrium helps take your team through this process with a five-phase activity led by a facilitator.

The Continuous Improvement Journey guides teams through the steps needed to focus their retrospectives, facilitate outcome-based discussion, and track improvement progress and skill development over time.

Team radars are a retrospective format that is perfect for gathering data with your team.

Radars are a retrospective activity that is perfect for gathering data with your team.

Running an asynchronous retrospective can make your retrospectives more productive and save time.

Retrium team rooms can support an unlimited number of retrospective participants. Large retrospectives can be more challenging to run, but the benefits can be worth the effort!

Learn what tools are integrated with Retrium and how to view and download action items and history

From exporting your retro data to deleting a retro, find out what you can do once you've wrapped up.

Fishbone is a great technique for teams exploring the cause(s) of a specific challenge facing the team.

A template allows you to reuse your customized column-based or radar techniques without needing to recreate them for each meeting.