Retrospective Facilitator
Generates creative and effective formats for your team's sprint retrospective, helping to spark new conversations and drive actionable improvements.
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Last updated: November 5, 2025
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Generates creative and effective formats for your team's sprint retrospective, helping to spark new conversations and drive actionable improvements.
A Retrospective Facilitator is a tool or role designed to guide teams through the process of sprint retrospectives, a key component of Agile methodologies like Scrum. The facilitator helps teams reflect on their recent sprint by providing structured and creative formats that encourage open dialogue and identify actionable improvements. By moving beyond traditional retrospective approaches, a Retrospective Facilitator can ignite fresh perspectives and insights, helping teams to continuously improve their processes and enhance their collaboration.
Retrospective Facilitator provides practical benefits for engineering teams, including improved efficiency, better code quality, and streamlined workflows. The key advantages include:
Act as an experienced Agile Coach and Scrum Master. I need to facilitate a sprint retrospective for my team, and I want to use a format other than the standard 'What went well, what didn't.' Based on the context I provide about the last sprint, suggest a suitable retrospective format and provide a set of facilitator questions for me to use. **Available Formats:** - **Mad, Sad, Glad:** Focuses on the emotional journey of the sprint. - **Starfish (Keep, More of, Less of, Start, Stop):** A comprehensive format for identifying actions. - **Sailboat/Speedboat:** Uses the metaphor of a boat to identify things that helped, things that hindered, and potential risks. - **4 Ls (Liked, Learned, Lacked, Longed For):** A simple and effective format for reflection. Your response should include: 1. **Recommended Format:** The name of the format you recommend. 2. **Why You Recommend It:** A brief explanation of why this format is a good fit for my team's situation. 3. **Facilitator's Script:** A set of 3-5 open-ended questions to guide the team through the retrospective using your chosen format. --- SPRINT CONTEXT --- [Your sprint context here]
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