How Do You Miro? Retrospective Templates Challenge 🔮

I am fairly new to Miro and was amazed at the boards that were submitted.  I have learned more about using Miro by reviewing these boards.  I have also been challenged to up my retrospective game.  Congratulations to the winners, you deserved it.

Thanks for the opportunity to showcase our work Mironeers, congratulations @Clyde D'Souza.

Always a pleasure seeing @DWestgarth, @Chris Stone and @nagrap’s work and creativity. Shout out also to @Martina Bonetti and @GuillaumeL’s templates, I’ll be test driving them myself later this week. 

Much love. 

Congratulations Clyde! 

Hi everyone and especially @Steven Sampson-Jones @Clyde D'Souza @Martina Bonetti @Chris Stone @nagrap @GuillaumeL @Laurence Wood @DWestgarth @Crystal Watson   

Ta-da! I am happy to announce the winners of this How Do You Miro? Retrospective Templates Challenge 

Ladies and gentlemen, 

  The winners are:

• Judges’ Choice -  @Clyde D'Souza & Retrospective in the Island of Golocans 
• People’s Choice -  @Steven Sampson-Jones & Marvellous Retrospective 

Congratulations! 

The prizes will soon be on their way to the winners and all the participants who followed the entry requirements.
The winners will also see a new badge in their community profile soon 

We want to thank everyone for participating in this challenge and sharing your awesome boards! Most of these templates will soon appear in our Miroverse and will become available to all Miro users.

Stay tuned for the next challenge!  And if you don’t want to miss it, subscribe to this category to receive an email notification when we launch a new contest.

Have a good one 

Retro Name: Team Sustainability Retrospective

1. Your full name - Pardeep (aka Paddy) Dhanda
2. Role and company - Chief Visual Thinker @ Paddy Dhanda Ltd
3. Miro board embedded with your template (view access) - 

    

4. Instructions on how to use the template - Details below.

Instructions:

This retrospective template was inspired by the 8th agile principle from the Agile Manifesto: Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely. The retro uses the theme of sustainability through out the 5 step process which include a number of fun activities. This retro can be used by any Agile team that is looking to identify and eliminate wasteful activities.

In line with the theme of sustainability, the visuals have recycled as many of the standard built in Miro features as possible.

How does the Team Sustainability retrospective work?

Each activity must be tackled in the order in which they are listed in the template over 5 key steps. Timings for the retro are flexible depending upon the size of your team, but typically it should be completed within 60 mins:

1) Step 1: Set the Stage - Kick off with 2 fun icebreakers by selecting which item you would take with you on a desert island, and gauge how the previous iteration went for you by picking the most relevant weather icon.

2) Step 2: Gather Data - The main part of the retro asks teams to identify what they are most proud of from the previous iteration to celebrate key successes. Then identify the most wasteful activities within the team by using the 7 Lean wastes.

3) Step 3: Generate Insights - Each team member should transfer their stick notes from the previous board to the most relevant circle of influence - this will help the team focus on the things that they have control over as a priority.

4) Step 4: Decide What To Do - Each team member should transfer their sticky notes within the sphere of influence that the team can control to the appropriate quadrant in this board. This will enable group consensus on the things the team wish to improve as part of the next iteration.

5) Step 5: Close the Retrospective - This is a fun way to end the retro where the team will identify commitments to make the world a better place. These could include any theme such as, how to help the environment by recycling more, helping others by having regular coffee catch-ups to improve their mental health, etc.

I hope you enjoy the Team Sustainability Retro!

Retrospective VICE VERSA

1. Your full name - Guillaume Lerouge
2. Role and company - Lean/Agile Coach - Nowshak.
3. Embedded board - https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_l9_92zg=/ 
4. Instructions on how to use the template

Inspired by Pixar's VICE VERSA, this retrospective is perfectly suited to teleworking teams wishing to inspect the way they work and gain efficiency.

Participants describe it as very dynamic, fun and effective.

JOY, SADNESS, FEAR, ANGER and DISGUST accompany the team in 5 workshops to help them build a SMART action plan in a good mood.

SET THE STAGE

This is the time to welcome the participants, introduce them to the characters, align them on the mindset to be adopted in the retrospective, and take everyone's emotional temperature and give everyone a voice

GATHER DATA

This is the moment to recall what has happened since the last retrospective or since the beginning of the period under discussion. This step allows you to retrieve all the useful data for the future and to position them on top of the timeline if they are positive and below if they are not.

GENERATE INSIGHTS

This is the time to come up with ideas that we can then turn into SMART action. As COLERE says, all ideas are good, so let's not be afraid to submit them

DECIDE WHAT TO DO

This is the time to write down really actionable items and commit to them. This step is easier when all the previous steps have been completed.

CLOSE RETRO

We end here with a management 3.0 tool (Happiness Door) that combines the happiness index and the feedback door. This little game allows you to thank the participants for their work and to ask them for their feedback before leaving.

The 4-Step Retrospective

1. Your full name - Clyde D’Souza
2. Role and company - Software developer at Xero. Author of Mama, Tell Me a Story.
3. Miro board embedded with your template (view access) - The 4-Step Retrospective board
4. Instructions on how to use the template - Details below.

Embedded board:

Instructions:

The 4-step retrospective board is intended to quickly add a simple retrospective template for your retro sessions. This covers the following four areas:

• Let's appreciate others - Recognize your teammates for their fabulous work they've been putting in.

• What went well? - Reflect and celebrate the various aspects that went well during the last sprint.

• What can we do better? - Reflect on the things that didn't go so well and write down what would have been done better in that situation.

• Actions for next sprint - Record actionable items that you and your teammates could do for the next sprint.

This template and the instructions can also be found on Miroverse.

WOMEN IN TECH RETRO

This board has been created to inspire, celebrate and connect women working in tech​.

• Your full name: Sandra Kaul
• Role and company: Founder & Agile Coach at KIWIBLAU
• Miro board embedded with your template (view access):

Instructions on how to use the template:

• Silent brainstorming: Go through the questions, get to know these amazing ladies by following the links and write down your ideas and reflections
• Travel around the board to generate some debate and discussion among the team.
• Rate the Retro from 1 (what a waste of time) to 10 (awesome)

• Your full name: Martina Bonetti
• Role and company: Service designer @Accenture Interactive Amsterdam

Here is my design team’s end of the year retrospective template :)
After a whole year away from the office, we all felt a need for connection and belonging. This is why our yearly retrospective was studio-themed!

The whole virtual workshop space is an illustration of our beautiful building. I sprinkled pictures of some rooms and some colleagues to bring up some memories and set the mood.

The session starts by entering the front door, and as you progress through the exercises you move through different rooms and make your way up to the top.

For the session wrap up the exercises continue in the nearby building, which represents our team’s favourite bar, where every Friday we would have drinks.

Instructions:
The session is organised in two parts, which can be run as separate shorter workshops.

• Session 1 - Individual reflection
  The aim of this section is allowing every team member to reflect on how the year went.
  In order to allow everyone to share, it’s recommended to split the group into breakouts of maximum 4.
  The first exercise is a warm up to recollect highs and lows of the year.
  The second exercise focuses on projects in order to find what makes a good or a bad one, and inform our leads on how to better staff the team and ongoing issues.
  The third exercise looks at skills and asks everyone to think of what they like applying, what they want to learn and what they could teach others. The result of this exercise will allow the team to set up knowledge sharing sessions throughout the year and organise appropriate trainings.
  The conclusion wraps up the individual reflection setting actions and prioritising what to start doing in the next year.
   
• Session 2 - team reflection
  The second part of the workshop aims at painting the current status of the team and it is to be run with the full group.
  The first exercise maps every team member’s core skills to identify strengths and weaknesses, which will help informing training and hiring decisions.
  The second exercise focuses on team activities and cultures, and it aims at creating actions for everyone to pick up as a group.
  The third exercise is a group prioritisation that sets goals for next year and creates accountability for the team.
  The conclusion is a mission statement for the next year, which every team member can use to remember actions and motivations.

More instructions can be found within the template.

I hope more teams can personalise this template to represent their own culture and enjoy a moment of reflection :)

__PRESENT

• Your full name - Steven Sampson-Jones
• Role and company - Agile Coach on Universal Credit, UK Government
• Miro board embedded with your template (view access) - Embedded above, has been submitted for approval via Miroverse. All visuals have been drawn and produced by yours truly, or put together using Miro’s sticky-notes!
• Instructions on how to use the template - 
  Set the stage - The (Optimus) Prime Directive - set expectations and contribute towards the psychological safety of the session.
  Icebreaker - “This or That” conversational exercise, which will help build people connections and allow participants to find their voice at the outset.
  Generate insights - Participants add suggestions, concerns and kudos through the visual prompts; Sonic - iteration/pace of delivery), Donkey Kong - overcoming hurdles, Super Mario (Powered-Up ways of working and colleagues), Crash Bandicoot - how are the team damaging themselves or their users and Cuphead/Mugman - how effectively do we work as a team?
• Decide what to do - Affinity sort stickies into related groups and allow time for participants to use the Pac-Man (hand drawn) voting counters for them to distribute as they wish. 20-40 minute brainstorm and discuss experiments to take into the next sprint/timebox.
• Close the show - return of time invested/fist of five, was this format/session a Hi-Score on the “Arcade Leadboard”. 1st place (1 finger - excellent) to 5th place (4 fingers and a thumb - must do better).

@DWestgarth It’s both a ‘slam dunk’ and 3 pointer!

@Steven Sampson-Jones Love this… your drawing skills put me to shame.