Templates

The Sailboat

The Sailboat is a picture template that uses a sailing boat metaphor to apply the four category retrospective in a more interesting way.

Energy Insights

Discover what drains or recharges the team energy, enabling reflection and making adjustments for improved efficiency and vitality!

Easter Egg Dash

Get ready for a dash of fun with our Easter Egg Dash Icebreaker! Perfect for 2-10 players, this game brings the excitement of an egg hunt right into your team meeting.

Fibonacci Estimation

An automated template for running Fibonacci Estimation, also known as Planning Poker. Let the slick voting and automated assignment help you run an amazing estimation session.

Sprint Planning

A dynamic template for running Sprint Planning with your team. Work together on the Sprint Goal, then allocate tasks to the team via the ticket lanes.

Kudos Tree

Give a shout out to a colleague and share some positivity.

The Superhero

What would be the Super Powers and Weaknesses of your team as a superhero? Who would be your sidekick?

Easter Retro

Hop into a festive reflection with our Easter-themed retrospective and Egg Dash icebreaker. Get ready to crack some puns, hatch plans, and make impactful leaps towards your team's goals!

Lean Coffee

Lean Coffee is a meeting format that provides a structure for discussion of multiple topics. Participants build an agenda of items to discuss, prioritize the agenda and then work through each topic one by one.

Definition of Done

Create a Definition of Done to agree what "Done" really means, and bring transparency to your team's working processes.

Timeline Roadmap

Use this template to assemble a clear timeline roadmap, align the team, and communicate the plan.

Back 2 School

As we come back to a new academic year, take this opportunity to reflect on how you worked last year, and how you want to work in the new year.

The Hot Air Balloon

The Hot Air Balloon is a hybrid retro / futurespective that looks at what is helping / hindering the team and what positive / negative things are on the horizon.

The Speed Car

Picture template that uses a racing car metaphor to ask the team what is holding them back and what is driving them forwards.

The Speed Car & The Abyss

A variation on The Speed Car activity that adds a future facing section to create a hybrid retrospective/futurespective.

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

A classic retro with a fun theme based on the 1966 Western movie.

Good / Bad / Start / Stop

Classic four-panel retrospective board with categories of Good, Bad, Start and Stop. Encourages a variety of ideas and actions.

Drop / Add / Keep / Improve

Alternative four-panel retrospective with alternative categories of Drop, Add, Keep and Remove.

Glad / Mad / Sad

Straightforward retrospective exercise that asks teams to identify and discuss what makes them Glad, Mad and Sad.

Draw Our Sprint

This is a fun, hands-on way to look back on your sprint and see how it went from everyone’s perspective. By drawing out your experiences, you might notice things that aren't usually talked about, and it gives the team a chance to get a bit creative too!

Three Little Pigs

Use the story of the Three Little Pigs to identify the team's weak and strong "structures", and decide how to improve them.

The Boxing Ring

If the last sprint felt like 10 rounds in the ring, use this retrospective to review the highlights.

Joy, Fear, Excitement!

Use these three powerful emotions to evaluate how your work makes you feel.

Hero's Journey

In the Hero's Journey, you will recount your sprint as an epic tale. Share triumphs, challenges, and unexpected twists. May your stories shine as legendary heroes!

Ishakawa Diagram a.k.a Fishbone

Use the Fishbone exercise to brainstorm and identify the root causes of a problem.

Timeline Retrospective

The Timeline Retrospective is an interactive way to map past events and analyse the highs and lows of a sprint.

T-Shirt Estimation

An automated template for running T-Shirt Estimation. Categorize tasks from XS to XL, providing clarity on your backlog's scope and complexity.

Timeline Retro with Team Mood

A Timeline Retrospective template with added mood tracker.

Easter Egg Dash (For 11+ People)

The large version of Easter Egg Dash for teams of 11+ players. Get ready for a dash of fun with our Easter Egg Dash Icebreaker. This game brings the excitement of an egg hunt right into your team meeting.

Rose, Thorn & Bud check-in

A simple but effective way to reflect on recent positive, negative and inspirational points.

Mood Thermometer

A simple thermometer gauge that can be used to quickly gather information about how people found the sprint. This template can be customised for a variety of uses.

Draw your Sprint!

A picture is worth a thousand sticky notes. Draw your take on the sprint and spot the common themes between the team. Prompts include: Draw the Sprint as an animal | Draw your face after this sprint | Draw our customer using the sprint output.

Elephant in the Room

If you feel real issues are not being raised in your regular retrospectives, use the Elephant in the Room exercise to help the team open up.

Genie in a Bottle

Unleash some magic with the Genie in a Bottle retrospective. Use your three wishes wisely!

Hopes & Concerns

A quick warm up activity that encourages teams to discuss their Hopes & Concerns. Best run at the start of a workshop or period of work.

I Like, I Wish

A simple retrospective that focuses on the positives, for both the past and the future.

I Like, I Wish, What If

A retrospective focused on positive changes and blue sky thinking. This format can also be used for collecting feedback.

Incident Post-Mortem

Evaluate the facts of an incident and what the team have learnt from the experience.

KALM - Keep, Add, Less, More

Reflect on how the team are delivering value and what could be improved

Keep, Problems, Try

Keep, Problems, Try is a simple retrospective exercise that gets the team to generate potential experiments for their next iteration.

Liked / Learned / Lacked / Longed For

Liked / Learned / Lacked / Longed For is a popular four-panel retrospective that asks teams to feedback on the positives and negatives of a particular topic or activity.

Niko Niko Calendar

Use the Niko Niko calendar to collect and visualise the team mood over time, then review the results together.

On The Radar

Use this radar template to collect and prioritize items or feedback across different topics, prioritizing the most important in the center.

Open The Box

Open the Box looks at all the activities a team performs as part of it's working processes and examines what changes should be made to improve team performance.

Plus / Delta

A simple reflective exercise to generate constructive feedback.

Plus / Minus / Interesting

A simple retrospective that encourages critical thinking. Useful for retrospective sessions as well as decision making or brainstorming.

Risk-Taking Retro

Visualise how risk-taking the team are and identify areas to de-risk or to take more risks.

Scrum Values Assessment

The Scrum Values Assessment is a great way to assess the team's agile values together and to decide the types of behaviour the team wants to practice, as well as the anti-patterns they want to avoid.

Start / Stop / Continue

Retrospective exercise that asks teams to share and discuss what the team should Start, Stop or Continue doing.

The Awards Ceremony

Hold an awards ceremony for your recently released work!

Team Skills Retro

Perform an assessment of the team's skills and decide where to improve.

Thanksgiving

Use this Thanksgiving-themed retrospective to express gratitude and celebrate team wins. Finish with a slice of pie.

The Starfish

Picture template where each arm of a starfish represents a category for team feedback and ideas.

Thumbs / New Ideas / Recognition

Four-panel retrospective for team feedback that includes an emphasis on recognition and new ideas.

Worked Well / Kinda / Didn't

A simple retrospective that focuses on the successes and shortcomings of a topic or activity.

Weather Report

The Weather Report helps a team compare their plan to what actually happened, by reporting on the stormy (disruptive) and sunny (easy) weather conditions they faced, how it affected them, and how they adapted to change.

Wishes / Risks / Appreciation / Puzzles

A retrospective format that encourages people to think bigger.

Waste Snake

The Waste Snake helps a team to identify, categorise and tackle inefficiencies they encounter in their daily work.

5 Whys (Focused)

Use the 5 Whys exercise to uncover the root cause of a problem.

The Big Christmas Retro

Ho Ho Ho... etc. A bumper three-part Christmas retrospective.

Trick or Treat!

Go door-to-door with your team in search of Halloween treats! Encounter the monsters, spooky house, and spider webs on your way...

Tigers, Paper Tigers, And Elephants

An engaging pre-mortem exercise that helps a team identify risks and issues before they occur, producing an action plan for the risks that will hurt the project if left unchecked.

Graveyard of Gloom

Dive deep into potential pitfalls and brainstorm proactive solutions to ensure your project doesn't end up as a tombstone in the graveyard of failed endeavors.

RAID Analysis

Classic planning technique that asks participants to identify Risks, Assumptions, Issues & Dependencies for an upcoming project or session.

Story Mapping

Map the interactions with your product and split each step into user stories to build your product plan.

MoSCoW Prioritization

A classic method of prioritizing items into Must, Should, Could, and Won't.

Lean Prioritization Matrix

A 2x2 matrix for prioritizing items by value and effort. Useful for product management and general decision making.

Now - Next - Later Roadmap

The Now Next Later roadmap is a lean method of planning the initiatives that a product team wants to work on.

Goal-Oriented Product Roadmap

The goal-oriented product roadmap is designed for creating products with Lean Startup or Scrum. Use to establish product goals, plan releases, and coordinate the development and launch of products.

Calendar - Monthly Planner

A monthly planner with three streams of work.

Operational Task Planner

Use this collaborative template to plan what needs to be done before, during, and after an event, such as preparing a complex deployment or running a workshop.

Lean Canvas

A popular activity from the Lean Startup methodology that helps teams create a product plan focusing on problems, solutions, metrics, etc.

SWOT Analysis

Popular analysis technique that helps users look at Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats facing a team or business.

Eisenhower Box

Classic 2x2 matrix helping you make decisions and prioritize tasks

OKRs

Use this template to brainstorm and set OKRs.

One Page Test Plan

Use the One Page Test plan to clearly communicate the test plan for your sprint or project.

Product Backlog

A Kanban style product backlog template that is based on the layout we used to manage the Metro Retro backlog.

Simple Kanban

Classic Kanban board with Backlog, Todo, In Progress and Done. Great as an alternative to more complex tools for quick and easy task tracking.

Feature Prioritisation Grid

Use this sequence of grids to prioritise features by comparing them against each other, using factors like feasibility and value to customer.

Personas

Bring your personas to life.

Empathy Map

Use the Empathy Map to organize your findings when you are talking to your customers and capture feedback and conversations in an easy-to-use, tangible deliverable.

Value Proposition Canvas

Map your product value to the customers Jobs-to-be-done, with how your product addresses their needs and pains.

User Journey Mapping

Use the Journey Map to plot the interactions a person has with your product or service and how can you can improve their experience at each step.

Product Vision Board (simple)

The Product Vision Board helps you describe, visualise, and validate your product vision and strategy.

Product Vision Board (extended)

The Product Vision Board helps you describe, visualise, and validate your product vision and strategy, and adds on sections to capture your business model ideas.

Opportunity Solution Tree

The Opportunity Solution Tree helps you make sense of your discovery work as a product team. As you interview customers, use this template to vizualise your findings and map customer needs to solutions and business outcomes.

Impact Map

An Impact Map is a visual mapping technique to help Product teams decide which features to build, by focusing on the business goal and impact on end users.

Experiment Planner

When your team have an idea they want to try, use this template to design and implement the idea as an experiment. By completing the Experiment Planner together, it forces the team to evaluate their assumptions and make decisions that lead to a well-designed test.

Team Canvas (Simple)

The Team Canvas is an exercise to help form the team's identity.

Team Canvas

The Team Canvas is an exercise to help form the team's identity and agree ways of working.

RACI Matrix

Use this collaborative RACI Matrix to decide who does what!

Stakeholder Mapping

Identify each stakeholder and decide how to involve them in your project.

Six Thinking Hats

Six Thinking Hats is a brainstorming and decision-making activity that forces you to think about a topic from one perspective at a time.

Mind Map

Use a mind map to capture and organize your ideas around a central theme

Crazy 8's

A Design Sprint technique for visual ideation - draw 8 ideas in 8 minutes!

Pre-meeting questions

Use this template to collect information from your participants before a meeting, demo, or workshop.

Meeting Agenda

Make your own visual meeting agenda with this template

Weekly Team Status

This template helps you organize a weekly check-in meeting, with sections for Projects, People and Any Other Business.

Christmas Wish

A fun icebreaker to get into the festive mood. Decorate the team Christmas tree and add your wish for Santa!

Team Mood Icebreaker

Gauge the team mood with this quick icebreaker.

Explorer, Shopper, Vacationer, Prisoner

A short check-in activity to measure the team's attitude to the meeting.

ROTI: Phones

Ask participants to rate the meeting by choosing a phone type.

ROTI: Treasure

Rate the value of the meeting in growing piles of treasure.

Bullseye!

A quick exercise to visualise team mood. This can be used as an icebreaker or a closing activity.

Two Truths, One Lie

Split into teams and have fun with this icebreaker. Which "facts" are true and which are lies?

ROTI: Star Ratings

Rate the meeting and the facilitator out of 5 stars, with an area for feedback.

Agree or Disagree?

A check-in activity to get people comfortable with expressing their opinion. This can be used as an icebreaker or as part of a retrospective.

Coat of Arms

The Coat of Arms is a visual "'"get to know you"'" activity, but this one comes with a twist.

Double Diamond

The Double Diamond is a well-known visualization of the design and innovation process. It helps a team to explore broad possibilities and then narrow their focus to get to a solution.

ROTI: Feelings

Ask your participants how they feel after the meeting - hopefully better than when they started!

Energy Levels

A battery-themed check in activity to gauge the team's energy levels.

ROTI: Fist of Fives

Fist of Fives asks participants to rate the meeting value with a number of fingers.

Weather Check In

What's your weather? Each person picks a weather icon to describe how they are feeling.

Draw a Scene

An energizer activity asking the team to draw a scene together.

ROTI: Meeting Value 1-5

A simple way to ask your participants how valuable the meeting was.