Retro Format Guides

The Sprint Retro Board supports a few different ways to run a retrospective. Not sure which one fits your team this sprint? Start with the one that's had the roughest week, and the choice usually makes itself: a calm sprint suits the default; a tense one calls for Mad-Sad-Glad; a team that already knows its problems wants Start-Stop-Continue.

Went Well / To Improve / Action Items

The retro of choice for many. Broad, low-friction, easy to explain.

Start-Stop-Continue

A behavior-change format. Every card is phrased as an action rather than an observation; this can make it land closer to decisions than to venting.

Mad-Sad-Glad

An emotion-first format for teams under strain; surfaces morale and friction that a process-only format won't catch.