3 Sought After Sprint Retrospective Meeting Questions
Are you using Google to search for “Sprint Retrospective Meeting Questions”? Then you’ve come to the right place. In this article, I’ll give you some examples of sprint retrospective meetings that you can use for your retrospectives. The special thing about it: It’s all about the number “3”. That’s why there are 3 sought-after retrospectives here, each with 3 questions:
Sprint Retrospective Meeting Questions
1. The Start Stop Keep Retrospective 🔖:
Let’s start with a classic method. The Start-Stop-Keep Retrospective asks three simple questions about what your team should start, stop, and keep doing in the next retrospective. Since we’ve found that it’s easiest to start the retrospective with the question “What should be kept?” we usually make this a “keep stop start” retrospective:
Open Feedback Questions
Keep: What should we keep?
Stop: What should we stop doing?
Start: What should we start doing?
Sprint Retrospective Meeting Questions
2. The Mad Sad Glad Retrospective 😯:
The ” mad sad glad ” retrospective follows a similar pattern, but uses three common emotions to get the team to answer your retrospective questions. A fairly simple but fascinating retrospective format:
Open Feedback Questions
What made you mad? 😤
What made you sad? 😢
What made you glad? 🤩
Sprint Retrospective Meeting Questions
3. The Campfire Retrospective 🔥:
Who doesn’t like sitting in front of a warm fire and reflecting on the past and the future? - I wouldn’t recommend starting a fire in the office, but we’ve created this lovely campfire retrospective for that:
Open Feedback Questions
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?

Conclusion - 3 Sought After Sprint Retrospective Meeting Questions
In this article, I’ve selected the two sought-after retrospectives “start stop keep” and “mad sad glad” and added my own creation “The Campfire Retrospective”. I’m pretty sure it will be very popular in the future too. Try it out and you’ll see why 😉 .