Timeline Achievement Retrospective

Team Agility

Dec 1

This really is one of my favourite retrospectives to perform at the end of a quarter or year. Even though there is a healthy push to celebrate success more often I still find teams really enjoy taking time out too ‘look at the big picture they achieved’. In addition to the common Timeline Retrospective I personally encourage team members to add in a thank you to each other regarding particular events. Intra-team acknowledgement goes a long way to building affirmative collaboration for future events.

The purpose of the Timeline Retrospective is to gather data, discussion and action from events plus their impact over a selected time period.

How:

1. Agree Timeline Duration

2. Populate Timeline

- add events, colour coding according to your legend

- add your personal satisfaction during that even time

3. Discuss the sequences, what happened, thoughts, insights

4. Reflect on the data map

- achievements

- learnings done

- patterns occurring

- surprises we didn’t expect

- be sure to call out any thanks to each other

5. Summarise the team actions and add to the backlog

Colour Code your events & thanks to see a heat map of event impacts

I always find there’s multiple benefits from this type of retrospective

gives the team the opportunity to reflect on achievements, how they responded to events and to give thanks to each other
visualising all the team has been involved in provides tangible context to the amount of work they have been involved in
articulates what happens and what we felt / responded to the event. Being articulate about the two allows for individuals to express their point of view
acts as a good milestone ceremony to mark a change in focus
solicits team affirmed improvement actions

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