Genie in a Bottle retrospective template
Everyone gets three wishes. One for themselves, one for the team and one for everybody the team works with. Wishing makes it easier to say what people want without having to justify it first, and the room can then decide which wishes it can grant itself.
Try it free
Free to start. Your team joins with a link.
When to use it
- A lighter retro after a heavy sprint
- Hearing what individuals need
- The end of the year or a project
The columns
One wish for yourself
What would make your own work better?
For example
- An hour a day with no meetings
- Learning the deployment pipeline
One wish for your team
What would make the team better?
For example
- A shared definition of done
- Fewer projects at once
One wish for everybody
What would make things better for everyone you work with?
For example
- Faster answers from the platform team
- One place to find all the docs
Facilitator tip
Close by asking which wishes the team could grant itself before the next retro.
Other formats
- Three Horizons retrospective
- Three Little Pigs retrospective
- 4Ls retrospective: Liked, Learned, Lacked, Longed For
- Anchors and Engines retrospective
- Drop, Add, Keep, Improve retrospective
- Lean Coffee retrospective
- Mad, Sad, Glad retrospective
- Mountain Climber retrospective
- Original 4 questions retrospective
- Sailboat retrospective
- Starfish retrospective
- Start, Stop, Continue retrospective
- SWOT retrospective
- What Went Well retrospective
- Curse, Blessing, Quest retrospective