Agent skill

sprint-retrospective

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 add-skill https://github.com/aiskillstore/marketplace/tree/main/skills/supercent-io/sprint-retrospective

Metadata

Additional technical details for this skill

tags
retrospective, agile, scrum, team-improvement, facilitation
platforms
Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini

SKILL.md

Sprint Retrospective

When to use this skill

  • End of sprint: at the end of each sprint
  • Project milestone: after major releases
  • Team issues: when an immediate retrospective is needed

Instructions

Step 1: Start-Stop-Continue

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## 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)

Step 2: Mad-Sad-Glad

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## 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

Step 3: 4Ls (Liked-Learned-Lacked-Longed For)

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## 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

Output format

Retrospective document

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# 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%

Constraints

Required Rules (MUST)

  1. Safe Space: a blame-free environment
  2. Action Items: must be specific and actionable
  3. Follow-up: check progress in the next retrospective

Prohibited (MUST NOT)

  1. Personal attacks: improve the process, not the person
  2. Too many actions: limit to 2-3

Best practices

  1. Time-box: within 1 hour
  2. Rotate Facilitator: team members take turns facilitating
  3. Celebrate Wins: celebrate successes too

References

Metadata

Version

  • Current version: 1.0.0
  • Last updated: 2025-01-01
  • Supported platforms: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini

Tags

#retrospective #agile #scrum #team-improvement #project-management

Examples

Example 1: Basic usage

Example 2: Advanced usage

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