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Lean Coffee retrospective template

Lean Coffee is a meeting with no agenda until the room writes one. Everyone adds topics, everyone votes, and the team works through them in vote order, a few minutes each. When the timer runs out, the room decides whether to keep going or move on. It is the format this site was brewed for.

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Free to start. Your team joins with a link.

When to use it

The columns

To Discuss

Topics waiting their turn, most votes first.

For example

  • Should we keep the two-week sprint?
  • How do we share on-call more fairly?

Discussing

The topic the room is talking about now.

For example

  • Why the last release slipped
  • What we want from the next hire

Discussed

Topics the room has finished with, with takeaways and actions.

For example

  • Agreed to trial a release checklist
  • Parked the hiring question until next month

Facilitator tip

Keep the timebox short, five minutes or so, and let the keep-going vote extend the topics that need it.

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