Midnight Sailboat Retrospective
Transport your team to the delightful World of Papercraft, where we will sail the midnight seas together, and use our time riding tides to reflect on where we've done well and what we could improve for next time.
For who and for when?
This template is a perfect companion for teams who want to learn from recent sprints, projects, events or processes, and create actionable tasks and guiding principles to keep the future compass steady.
Why use this template?
This template is designed to take you on a visual experience that's easy to use, fun to explore, and most importantly it's actionable - so you can fully let go of your heaviest anchors and never meet the same sharks twice!
Credits
Cudos to the original creator of the Sailboat exercise, who devised a method so popular, it is impossible to identfy the first edition in amongst all the remakes. Good job! 🎉
This template was created by Lucie Agolini
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