Facilitate effective sprint retrospectives for continuous team improvement. Use when conducting team retrospectives, identifying improvements, or fostering team collaboration. Handles retrospective formats, action items, and facilitation techniques.
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npx tessl skill review --optimize ./.agent-skills/sprint-retrospective/SKILL.md## Retrospective Template: Start-Stop-Continue
### START (Start doing)
- Make daily standups shorter (within 5 minutes)
- Use a code review checklist
- Introduce pair programming
### STOP (Stop doing)
- Deploying on Friday afternoons (rollback risk)
- Overusing emergency meetings
- Adding features without documentation
### CONTINUE (Keep doing)
- Weekly tech sharing session
- Automated tests
- Transparent communication
### Action Items
1. [ ] Change standup time from 9:00 → 9:30 (Team Lead)
2. [ ] Write a code review checklist document (Developer A)
3. [ ] Announce the "no Friday deployments" rule (Team Lead)## Retrospective: Mad-Sad-Glad
### MAD (What made us mad)
- Urgent bugs after deployment (twice)
- Requirements changed frequently
- Unstable test environment
### SAD (What we wished went better)
- Not enough time for code reviews
- Documentation lagged behind
- Accumulating tech debt
### GLAD (What made us glad)
- New team members onboarded quickly
- CI/CD pipeline stabilized
- Positive customer feedback
### Action Items
- Strengthen the deployment checklist
- Improve the requirements change process
- Reserve documentation time every Friday## Retrospective: 4Ls
### LIKED (What we liked)
- Great teamwork
- Successfully adopted a new tech stack
### LEARNED (What we learned)
- Standardize the local environment with Docker Compose
- Improve server state management with React Query
### LACKED (What we lacked)
- Performance testing
- Mobile support
### LONGED FOR (What we longed for)
- Better developer tools
- External training opportunities
### Action Items
- Automatically measure performance by introducing Lighthouse CI
- Write responsive design guidelines# Sprint [N] Retrospective
**Date**: 2025-01-15
**Participants**: Team Member A, B, C, D
**Format**: Start-Stop-Continue
## What Went Well
- Completed all stories (Velocity: 25 points)
- 0 bugs
- Great team morale
## What Didn't Go Well
- Tech spike took longer than expected
- Rework due to design changes
## Action Items
1. [ ] Assign tech spikes to a dedicated sprint (Team Lead, ~01/20)
2. [ ] Introduce a pre-review process for designs (Designer, ~01/18)
3. [ ] Share the velocity chart (Scrum Master, weekly)
## Key Metrics
- Velocity: 25 points
- Bugs Found: 0
- Sprint Goal Achievement: 100%#retrospective #agile #scrum #team-improvement #project-management
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