Retrospective #5: Fast and Furious

The fast and furious retrospective is a retrospective that can easily lead to a fun time; it brings a little freshness to the retrospectives. Feel free to run your imagination to animate it in a fun way.

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Required material for fast and furious

For the fast and furious, you will need to prepare some material. Here is the requirement material to animate this retrospective:

• square post’it
• pens
• a board (or flipchart)

Here is an image to print in A3 that I made so that you have a nice picture for your retrospective:

The overall time to plan is 40 minutes.

Different steps of fast and furious

Here are the different steps to follow to complete this new retrospective.

Step 1: The Scrum Master will paste the fast and furious poster which represents 5 different notions that we will describe below. He will also explain all the elements present

Duration: 10 minutes

Step 2: He will allow 5 minutes for participants to fill the post’it to indicate what they think about the 5 points explained below:

• Fast: actions that could be done quickly during the sprint
• First: actions that were made for the first time during the sprint
• Furious: actions that were annoying during the sprint
• Fun: actions that were rather nice during the sprint
• Fed up: actions that were boring during the sprint

As a reminder, participants will have to notify one idea per post’it. However, they will not be limited by the number of posts to create.

Duration: 5 minutes

Step 3: The scrum master will purpose to each participant to come and explain what he has put on his posts to make sure that each idea is understood by all participants.

In parallel, the scrum master will also take advantage to gather the post’it dealing with the same idea to improve the readability of different ideas raised by the team.

Duration: 15 minutes

Step 4: the scrum master will suggest to the participants to take 5 minutes to note axis of improvement on the post’it knowing that they will be able to put only one idea per post’it.

Duration: 5 minutes

Step 5: Finally, he will purpose to all the participants to make a dot voting to vote the 3 most important axis of improvement that the team will have to do at the beginning of the next sprint.

We will define a monitoring officer and a commitment date for the 3 major axis of improvement determined by the dot voting.

Duration: 5 minutes

Conclusion : fast and furious

Slightly different, this retrospective of fast and furious purposes a simple format but not identical to the other retrospective that we can meet. It is essential to change the formats of each retrospective to never fall into the monotony of the retrospectives.