3 new retrospective workshop ideas (2026)
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Retrospective workshop ideas
3 fresh retrospective workshop ideas
The Tour de France is pretty famous and offers a lot of challenges, just like the typical Scrum Sprint. Let’s try it out.
Retrospective workshop ideas 1: Tour de France
- Where/What is our Champs Elysees? (Goal)
- Where is/was the sprint part (need to push?)
- Where is/was the steep part? (exhausting)
- Where do/did we find a downhill section? (swing)
Retrospective Workshop Ideas 2: The 4L Retro is old - do the 3A Retro
Perhaps you know the 4L retrospective “Loved, learned, longed, lacked,” which is relatively popular. There are similar methods - and one of them is the TripleA, AAA or 3A Retrospective.
- Authentic: Looking at the last sprint, who or what did you perceive as authentic, being exactly as it should be?
- Afraid: Looking at the last sprint, when have you been afraid in some way or another?
- Aware: What do we need to be aware of in the future?
You might even create some other questions based on other adjectives beginning with A, like for example absolute, ambivalent, amoral, automatic, average, ancient, advanced…
Retrospective Workshop Ideas 3: Superman
Everyone knows Superman - so let’s use this popular story for a creative retrospective. We are a team equipped with unbeatable superpowers…
- What was our recent heroic deed?
- Who was our most challenging opponent?
- How or when did we use our superpowers?
- What was our kryptonite (biggest weakness, leading to failures)?
By the way, you can also do this and other retrospectives with our Retrospective Tool Echometer (no registration necessary):
Want some more retrospective ideas?
There are so many other agile retrospective ideas out there. If you are interested in finding even some more, I can highly recommend to have a look at our post on 32 kickass retrospective ideas for beginners and pros .
Conclusion - Retrospective Workshop Ideas
I hope these retrospective workshop ideas gave you some inspiration.
But the questions you ask in a retrospective are not everything. You should make sure to develop good action items towards the end. If you are interested in becoming better at this, feel free to have a look on our post with 7 tips for great action items .
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