By Rebecca Jones
Tags: Agile
When a project or phase ends, the Golden moments retrospective is a chance to look back at the project and remember the good stuff. It’s a great way to farewell a team member who’s leaving or to wrap up the work.
Use the Golden moments retrospective when:
A project or phase ends and you want to remember the good stuff so you can lock it into future work.
This might be the end of a project, a phase of a project or a team member’s time on a project.
For the Golden moments retrospective you need:
1 hour
The Golden moments retrospective is a chance for the team to reminisce about their time on the project. It can be a nice farewell to a team member or a final recap for a project or phase. At the end of the retro, you’ll have locked in the good memories and the good learnings.
Draw up a whiteboard with a Golden Moments heading and four columns: Proudest moments, Funniest moments, Most memorable moments and Golden nugget takeaways. You’re after something like this:
Pick an opener of your choice.
Ask everyone to silently brainstorm some of their proudest moments from the project. Write each one on its own post-it.
Have each team member take turns to share their proudest moment with the team and stick the post-its on the board.
2 minute brainstorm
Ask everyone to silently brainstorm some of the funniest moments from the project. Write each one on its own post-it.
Take turns to share and stick up the funniest moments.
2 minute brainstorm
Ask everyone to silently brainstorm some of their most memorable moments from the project.
Take turns to share and stick up the most memorable moments.
2 minute brainstorm
Ask everyone to silently brainstorm one or two lessons they’ve learned on the project.
Take turns to share and stick up the golden nuggets.
2 minute brainstorm
Ask the team to brainstorm one thing they appreciate about each team member.
Focusing on one team member at a time, have everyone read out their appreciation for that person.
4 minute brainstorm
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