4 Interesting Agile Retrospective Meeting Templates

Are you using Google to search for “Agile Retrospective Meeting Templates”? Then look no further, you’ve come to the right place. In this article, I’ll introduce you to some templates for sprint retrospective meetings that you can use for your retrospectives:

Let’s start with a classic. Namely, the Start-Stop-Keep retrospective. This asks three simple questions that relate to what you should start, stop, and keep in the next sprint cycle. We usually turn this into the “Keep-Stop-Start” retrospective because we’ve found that the “What should be kept” question is the easiest question to get the retrospective going:

Keep: What should we keep?

Stop: What should we stop doing?

Start: What should we start doing?

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As you can see, “DAKI” stands for the four English words “Drop, Add, Keep, Improve”, which are the four questions asked in this particular retrospective format. Retrospectives with more than 3 questions are usually a bit longer, but can provide interesting insights due to the additional perspectives on the last sprint ( I wrote a detailed article about the DAKI retrospective here ):

Drop: What should we drop?

Add: What should we add?

Keep: What should we keep?

Improve: What should we improve?

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The fable of the same name served as inspiration for this retrospective, in which three little pigs in the fairy tale build three different shelters to protect themselves from the big wolf. Now the question is: What exactly does your team’s “shelter” consist of?

House of straw: What do we do that is just holding together, but could topple over at any moment? 🌱

House of sticks: What do we do that is relatively stable, but could be improved?\n 🪵

House of bricks: What do we do that is rock solid? 🪨

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**4. The Campfire Retrospective:**🔥

Who doesn’t like sitting around a cozy fire thinking about the past and the future? - I wouldn’t recommend lighting a fire in your office, but that’s exactly why we made a nice campfire retrospective:

Warm fire: What made you feel good in the last sprint?

Turned to ashes: What did not work as desired and crumbled to ashes?

The shooting star: What do you wish for the future?

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Conclusion - 4 Interesting Agile Retrospective Meeting Templates

I opted for 2 rather unusual retrospectives, in addition to the traditional “keep stop start” and DAKI retrospectives. I sincerely hope you enjoy them.

If you want to see 22 more Retrospective Templates, you can check out the following blog article: 22 Refreshing Agile Retrospective Templates in 2023