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After this, you can do a quick dot voting session to determine the most important one(s) and start with a discussion on those.įirst discuss all the post-its in the “Destination” category and come to a conclusion of the goal of the team before discussing the other stages. “Obstacles”: what risks do we see in the future, that could prevent us from reaching the goal? Something that we see happening, but is not yet happening to us today.Īfter explaining the stages to your team, give everybody a few minutes to write down their thoughts on a post-it.“Holding us back”: what is currently holding us back, slowing us down, or preventing us to reach our goal?.“Helping us”: what is currently helping us on our road to achieving this goal? What should we keep doing?.What are we striving for? As mentioned above, this can be something related to the product that you are building, or it can be something related to the way of working within the team. “Our destination”: what’s our goal? This should be the main theme for the retrospective.The sailboat retrospective consists of two rounds: