Retrospective Activity

🏀 Play ball!

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This activity:

  • Easy metaphor to follow
  • Requires some training
  • Focuses on actions done
  • Highlights areas for improvement

Introduction

Participants are considered a basketball team which is testing their performance in the court shooting for baskets. There are three shooting baskets boards to choose from, free-throws which are things the team consider easy or trivial, two-pointers for things of moderate difficulty and three-pointers for things that require a big effort.

Free-throws
Two-pointers
Three-pointers

For the specific activity, the facilitator could use these points to describe the process:

  • The Free-throws column is for notes that describe tasks and processes that are considered easy to do.
  • The Two-pointers column is for notes that describe tasks and processes that are considered of moderate difficulty to apply.
  • The Three-pointers column is for notes that describe tasks and processes that are considered hard and require effort to implement.

See how a retrospective works in Team O'clock

Tips & Tricks

Play ball activity is good for reflecting team work over a big period of time, as members will have a lot of notes to disrtibute.

Popularity: 2

The "🏀 Play ball!" activity is sometimes used among Team O'clock teams. It seems that only a few teams use this activity for their retrospectives.

Recap

🏀 Play ball!

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Free-throws

Things that are considered easy

Two-pointers

Things that are of moderate difficulty

Three-pointers

Things that require a big effort and are difficult

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