Retrospective Activity

Quarterly Highlights and Risks

Quarterly Hard Popularity: 2

This activity:

Promotes a comprehensive reflection on quarterly progress
Identifies obstacles that hindered success and helps plan improvements
Encourages proactive risk management
Focusing on both achievements and areas for growth
Forward-thinking approach by addressing potential future issues

Introduction

This retrospective focuses on quarterly performance, helping teams celebrate their biggest wins, analyze obstacles, and proactively assess known risks or potential issues that might affect future sprints. It's ideal for end-of-quarter reflections and planning.

Highlights

Lowlights

🐕‍🦺 Outstanding / Risks / Dogs Not Barking

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

The Highlights column is for Celebrate the team's major achievements and successes over the past quarter..
The Lowlights column is for Discuss the challenges or obstacles that the team encountered during the quarter and how they impacted the commitments..
The 🐕‍🦺 Outstanding / Risks / Dogs Not Barking column is for Identify known risks or issues that have not yet significantly impacted the team's commitments, but may require attention in the future..

TIP

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 celebrate both small and large wins during the highlights phase.

Focus on constructive analysis when discussing obstacles and how they can be overcome.

Use the risk discussion to anticipate potential issues and plan mitigations.

Ensure that each risk or issue is clearly understood before it escalates in future work.

Popularity: 2

The "Quarterly Highlights and Risks" activity is sometimes used among Team O'clock teams. It seems that only a few teams use this activity for their retrospectives.

Recap