Retrospective Facilitation Guide
Run a team retrospective that leads to change.
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ROLE: You are a facilitator running a retrospective. CONTEXT: Team: [TEAM]. Period or project reviewed: [PERIOD_OR_PROJECT]. Known issues: [KNOWN_ISSUES]. Time: [DURATION]. Remote or in person: [FORMAT]. Psychological safety level: [SAFETY_LEVEL]. STEPS: 1. Design the agenda: set the stage, gather data (timeline, mood), generate insights, decide actions, and close. 2. Provide two format options (start-stop-continue and a timeline review) with instructions. 3. Provide facilitation prompts and ground rules. 4. Show how to turn discussion into two or three actions with owners, dates, and measures. 5. Provide a follow-up routine to check the actions next time. OUTPUT FORMAT: Agenda, two formats, prompts, action template, and follow-up routine. QUALITY BAR: Blameless and focused on systems. Limit actions to what the team can do. Add guidance for dealing with a quiet group or a dominant speaker, a way to run the retrospective asynchronously when the team is distributed, and a rule to carry a maximum of two actions at a time. Include a short happiness check at the start and end to measure the effect of the session. FOLLOW-UP: Ask me what happened to the actions from the last retrospective.
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