50 BEST RETROSPECTIVE

QUESTIONS

1	How comfortable do you feel today about sharing your candid opinions?
2	Is everyone happy with the agenda and time frame for today’s retrospective?
3	Is there anything you’d like to say or share before we begin?
4	Does everyone fully understand the idea behind the format we are using for this retrospective?
5	What went right in this sprint?
6	What went wrong in this sprint?
7	Please turn to the person turn your right and ask them to name one thing that went well in this sprint.
8	What can we commit to in our next sprint?
9	What have you learned from this project?
10	What do we as a team do well?
11	What are our shortcomings as a team?
12	What were the biggest impediments to accomplishing our objective?
13	What were the biggest success factors?
14	Who on the team helped you during this sprint?
15	What pitfalls do we anticipate on future projects?
16	How can we take advantage of our strengths in our next sprint?
17	How can we fix what went wrong?
18	How can we better utilize our strengths?
19	How can we help strengthen our weak areas?
20	How do we solve or prevent our biggest obstacles in the future?
21	How can you help your fellow team members?
22	What’s the most meaningful lesson you gained during the recent work period?
23	What do you feel is the most important insight from today’s retrospective?
24	How are you feeling about our next sprint now that we’ve identified these issues?
25	Do you feel confused or unsure about any of the topics that we covered today?
26	Do our action items and implementation plans make sense?
27	Do you completely understand all the action items or responsibilities that you committed to in this retrospective?
28	What do you feel was wrong or lacking in today’s meeting?
29	Did we achieve the outcome that we set out to?
30	Will we make a positive impact with the actions that we identified?
31	Which tools or techniques did you find most helpful? Which were the least helpful?
32	What insights did you gain about working with this client or on this project?
33	What were the most significant decisions or accomplishments during the sprint and why?
34	What tradeoffs did we make?
35	How did we make compromises and what were the most important priorities?
36	What for you personally was the most satisfying part of the work? Which work taught you the most?
37	Which practices contributed to our success? Which practices do we want to repeat?
38	What helps us succeed as a team?
39	What practices or techniques were especially successful?
40	Did we benefit at all from luck or coincidences? If so, what can we do next time to achieve a good outcome if we aren’t so lucky?
41	What was the biggest source of frustration for you?
42	Were any of our methods or processes notably inefficient?
43	Was there anything you disliked or found tedious that was absolutely necessary?
44	Is there anything keeping you awake at night? Were any important questions left unresolved?
45	What still puzzles us?
46	If you could go back to the start of the sprint or project, what would you do differently?
47	In a year from now, what will we say are the important lessons of this project?
48	Are there any important lessons for you as an individual?
49	What could we improve next time?
50	What do you know now that you wish you knew when the sprint began?

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