Retrospective Activity
Fix and Keep
Standard Easy Popularity: 1
This activity:
- Promotes actionable improvements
- Strengthens team collaboration by reinforcing good practices
- Simple and focused retrospective format
- Encourages both introspection and positive reinforcement
- Helps maintain team alignment on core values
Introduction
This retrospective focuses on two key areas: actions the team should start doing to improve and behaviors or teamwork practices that are already working well and should be kept. It promotes both forward thinking and appreciation of what is already effective in the team dynamic.
For the specific activity, the facilitator could use these points to describe the process:
- The 🔧 To Fix column is for identify specific actions or behaviors that the team should start doing to improve processes or collaboration..
- The 🤝 To Keep column is for highlight teamwork practices and behaviors that are effective and should be maintained..
Onboarding the team to the selected activity is important for a successful meeting. To learn more on what's needed to onboard your team to a retrospective meeting, read here.
Tips & Tricks
Encourage the team to focus on small, actionable changes to start.
Acknowledge and celebrate the teamwork practices that have contributed to success.
Ensure that 'fix' actions are realistic and achievable in the next sprint.
Highlight teamwork examples to make the discussion more concrete.
Popularity: 1
The "Fix and Keep" activity is rarely used among Team O'clock teams. It seems that only a few teams use this activity for their retrospectives.
Recap
Fix and Keep
Standard Easy
🔧 To Fix
Actions and behaviours the whole team should start doing
🤝 To Keep
Teamwork that is currently working well and we want to keep