Creating and managing retrospectives
- Chris Cooper
Creating a new retrospective
On the left-side bar, select Boards>Retrospectives.
On the Retrospectives dashboard, Click on New retrospective.
In the New retrospective screen, fill in the Name, Facilitator, Participants and the retrospective format.
Click on New retrospective to complete the operation.
There are a few retrospectives formats available out of the box:
Alternatively, you can create a custom retrospective. Choose “Custom Format“ from the dropdown and then fill in the column’s names (up to 5 columns):
You can also enable the “Team mood” step to survey the participants about their mood in the current sprint/iteration. By default a set of question is available, but you can customize to meet your needs:
After completing the creation of a new retrospective, it lands on the first step of the retrospective (Think) where any participant can add ideas.
If you get back to the dashboard, the just created retrospective is displayed in the list.
Any user at any time can click on the retrospective and join the session.
Creating custom templates
Click on the cog icon next to the search box in the right-hand size of the screen
Click on Add Template. Fill in the template name and type the columns names and then click Save.
When creating a new retrospective you can choose a template from the Custom Templates section.
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