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Starfish retrospective template

Starfish has five arms. Keep, start and stop work as usual, and more and less let the team turn a practice up or down without dropping it. It suits a team whose process mostly works and needs adjusting rather than replacing.

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When to use it

The columns

Keep doing

What should we keep as it is?

For example

  • Weekly planning
  • Writing decisions down

Start doing

What should we begin?

For example

  • A monthly tech-debt day
  • Recording demos

Stop doing

What should we end?

For example

  • Status updates in standup
  • Last-minute scope changes

Do more

What deserves more of our time?

For example

  • Pairing on tricky work
  • Talking to customers

Do less

What deserves less of our time?

For example

  • Long design debates in Slack
  • Polishing internal tools

Facilitator tip

With five columns, keep the timebox for adding topics tight, or the board gets too wide to vote on well.

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