The Hot Air Balloon Retrospective

Christian Maniyar

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The Hot Air Balloon is a simple activity for helping the team identify things that makes them move faster, and things that slow them down.

The Sunny Skies represent everything coming up that makes us feel good and happy during work.
The Hot Air represents everything helping us to achieve the sprint goal, pushing the team's balloon to go even faster.
The Sandbags represent everything that is slowing us down an holding us back on the journey towards the sprint goal.
The Storm Clouds represent potential risks ahead that could jeopardize future sprint work.

Christian Maniyar

Scrum Master @ synyx GmbH & Co. KG

Christian arbeitet als Scrum Master und Agile Coach mit Teams daran, ihr volles Potenzial zu entfalten. Mit einem menschenzentrierten Ansatz fördert er Zusammenarbeit, Klarheit und kontinuierliche Verbesserung. Sein Fokus liegt auf wirkungsvollen Retrospektiven, die nachhaltiges Lernen und echtes Wachstum ermöglichen.

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