There are a few common ways of coming up with a retrospective goal: At The Start Of The Retrospective • Ask the team to help you craft a goal during the first couple of minutes: • Ask every member of the team to describe the sprint in a word or two, or perhaps as an abstract object such as “if the sprint were a chocolate bar, what would it be?” Then cluster the outputs and find a theme before focussing the sprint on that theme. • Use a game like Remember The Future [31], which is similar to the “moral of the sprint” exercise in the story. • Ask the team (or perhaps small groups within the
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