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Three Little Pigs retrospective template

The fairy tale gives the team three houses to sort their work into. Straw houses would blow over at the first gust. Stick houses stand up but need reinforcing. Brick houses are the parts of the process that hold firm. People rarely need the format explained twice.

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When to use it

The columns

🛖 Straw Houses

What is fragile and would fall over under pressure?

For example

  • Deploys depend on one person's laptop
  • No runbook for the payment outage

🏠 Stick Houses

What works for now but needs reinforcing?

For example

  • Code review happens, but slowly
  • The staging environment is shared and often broken

🧱 Brick Houses

What is solid and worth protecting?

For example

  • Pairing on anything risky
  • The weekly demo to stakeholders

Facilitator tip

Discuss the straw houses first. They are where the next incident comes from.

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