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Went Well, To Improve, Actions retrospective template

The classic sprint retrospective: Went well, To improve, Actions. Free online board, hidden cards, no sign-up for participants.

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Opens a new board with these columns, right in your browser.

What is the Went Well, To Improve, Actions retrospective?

Went well, To improve, Actions is the classic sprint retrospective that many teams run by default. Two columns collect the good and the bad; the third is reserved for what the team will do about it. Keeping actions on the board, next to the problems they answer, makes it easy to check at the next retro whether anything changed.

The columns

  1. Went well
  2. To improve
  3. Actions

When to use it

Use it as your everyday sprint retro, with a team that wants a simple routine, or when you need the retro to feed straight into the next sprint backlog.

How to run it in Peel in 5 steps

  1. Create a board with the Went well · To improve · Actions template and post the link in your team channel.
  2. Ask people to write in the first two columns only; leave Actions empty for now.
  3. Reveal the cards together, group duplicates and dot-vote on To improve.
  4. Discuss the top-voted items and write each agreed change as a card in Actions, with an owner and a due date.
  5. Export the actions as Markdown (or post them to Slack) and open them first thing at the next retro.
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Frequently asked questions

Why keep Actions as a column?

Writing actions next to the problems keeps them concrete. In Peel, actions also get owners and due dates and can be exported or posted to Slack.

Our retros with this format feel repetitive. What now?

Switch formats every few sprints: try Sailboat, 4Ls or Mad, Sad, Glad. All Peel templates are free, so changing costs nothing.

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