Time Travel Retrospective

October 06, 2020 1 minute read Join the discussion Practices Retrospective

You find a time travel machine and decide to go back 2 weeks ago and repeat the sprint. Explore your progress during the last sprint and choose what you’ll repeat or change in this second try.

Ice Breaker - Time Travel back to 1900

You find a time travel machine and accidentally end up back in 1900. You meet your grand-grand-grand parents.

How would you describe your current job to them?

Retrospective format

You’ve finally understood how the time machine works. Now you decide to go back 2 weeks ago and repeat the sprint.

What would you keep doing the same?

This section allows participants to think about what they did well during the last sprint and would keep doing in similar situations.

What would you do differently?

Here the participants have the chance to learn from their past actions and say what they would change if they found themselves in a sprint similar to their last one.

Based on the ideas gathers from the team, the retrospective continues with the classical structure:

• facilitator goes over each idea by reading it out loud and groups them
• each participant vote the n most preferred ideas
• facilitator moderates discussion about the most voted ideas and find retro actions together with the team

Closure - One advice for future you

Even if we can use the time travel machine, we still cannot change how things happened. However, we can still learn from the experience.

You have the possibility of leaving a secret note in case a future you decide to come back to this exact moment.

What piece of advice you would give to yourself after this sprint?

Resources

You can find an online board with this retrospective format here.