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A retrospective is the act of a team looking back on past events and behaviours to learn from these and capture actionable items that help them improve their work, team and working environment.

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Retrospective Basics

For when you want to learn more about the basics of retrospectives:

Retrospective Plans & Activities

For when you need ideas for retrospective activities:

  • Retromat - A large collection of activities and a planning tool which can be used to share your plan with others.
  • Fun Retrospectives - A large collection of activities and ideas for retrospectives.
  • loveagile.com - A small collection of retrospective activities.
  • Agile Retrospective Resource Wiki - A collection of retrospective activities and their use cases.
  • Hyper Island Toolbox - A collection of energizers and activities for unlocking insight and building a strong team.
  • Lego Retrospective - An activity using Lego for when you have issues with some team members dominating meetings or others not leaning in.
  • Safety Check - An activity for measuring how comfortable everyone feels sharing their views, useful for forming teams or when new team members join.
  • Squad Health Check - An activity for visualizing what to improve that can be used across teams from Spotify.
  • The Happiness Door - An activity for measuring happiness.
  • Kudo Cards - A practice for continuously sharing feedback and building intrinsic motivation.
  • Gamestorming - A collection of games and tools.
  • Retrospective Questions - A collection of facilitator questions to use in retrospectives

Distributed Retrospective Tools

For when you need to run a retrospective with a distributed team over the internet (🆓 = totally free, 💰 = paid plan may be required to access some features):

  • Confluence 💰 - Content collaboration software with retrospective templates.
  • EasyRetro 💰 - Distributed retrospective board with voting.
  • Google Docs - Collaborative document editing.
  • Google Drawings - Collaborative drawing.
  • GoRetro - Run team retrospectives easily, quickly, and absolutely free.
  • Ideaboardz 🆓 - Distributed retrospective board with voting and export functionality.
  • Kudobox 🆓 - Share Kudo cards on Twitter.
  • Metro Retro 💰 - Distributed retrospective tools with a number of retrospective activities.
  • Parabol 💰 - Open-source retrospective tool with integrations to GitHub, Jira, and Slack with commercial options available.
  • Postfacto 🆓 - Open-source and self-hosted retro tool aimed at helping remote teams.
  • Rapport 🆓 - Retro tool for distributed or remote teams.
  • Retrium 💰 - Distributed retrospective tools with a number of retrospective activities.
  • Retro Cadence - 💰 Distributed retrospective tools with a number of retrospective activities.
  • Retrobot 💰 - Distributed retrospective board with a number of retrospective templates.
  • Retroloop 🆓 - Easy-to-use, open-source tool for facilitating agile retrospectives.
  • RetroTool 💰 - Simple, fun and flexible tool for remote retrospectives used by thousands of people around the world.
  • ScatterSpoke 💰 - Distributed retrospective board with export functionality.
  • Scrumlr.io 🆓 - An open-source and well-designed web app for collaborative online retrospectives, featuring timers, voting capabilities, and the option to use the entire app anonymously.
  • Sprint Boards 💰 - Modern retrospective tool for Agile developers with support for third party services including Trello and Jira.
  • Teaminal 💰 - Async standup, retro, and sprint planning tool for distributed teams.
  • TeamRetro 💰 - Distributed retrospective tools with multiple activities, action tracking and automated idea grouping.
  • TeleRetro 💰 - Distributed retrospective tool with ice-breaker music, gifs and emojis.
  • Trello 💰 - Boards, lists, and cards.

Books About Retrospectives

For when you want to learn more in-depth information about retrospectives:

Articles About Retrospectives

For when you want information on specific issues or tips for improving your retrospectives:

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