Retrospective

When to do it?

A retrospective workshop should ideally conclude a project. It helps the team to improve together and constantly iterate on internal processes. Joining the retrospective is not mandatory, but obviously helps everyone improve and learn from mistakes.

How to do it?

Total duration: 1:30 hours

Brainstorm positives and negatives

Duration: 10min

Ask everyone to write down everything that stood out as positive (green notes) and everything you think can be improved (red notes).

Read positives

Duration: 5-10min

Let each participant read out the positives and provide a bit of context.

Read negatives

Duration: 5-10min

Let each participant read out their negatives and clarify what they mean.

Brainstorm solutions

Duration: 7min

Ask everyone to read through the negatives and place solution notes (blue) underneath in silence

Vote

Duration: 7min

Without discussion, ask all participants to read through the notes and place five dots on their favorite solutions.

Delegate

Duration: 10min

For the clearly actionable steps, delegate the work to the core team, contributors or set up as community bounties. In difficult cases suggest improvements, create a governance proposal or reach out to the core team to help solve the problem.

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