Use this template in google slides to group edit the boat as part of a remote meeting. The sailboat metaphor works equally well to help facilitate a team discussion online, you can use a shared whiteboard tool like Miro, create a template in a shared document or use the metaphor in a slack chat. Encourage the addition of extra features to their picture, sunshine, fish, sharks or icebergs, ask gently if the additions represent anything particular or just doodling for fun. Encourage all members of the group to pick up a pen and add to the picture. Drawing the boat helps to act as an icebreaker and get all of the group participating and on the boat. TIP – It’s valuable not to give the team a template boat but let them draw their own, this gives ownership and buy in to the activity, it also helps to create a safe creative space for the team to be open and all contribute. These can often indicate the mood of the team, good and bad metaphors – eg, sunshine, fish, sharks, icebergs, lightning bolts, stormy seas, flags, kraken, I have seen many props added! Allow the team at least 5 minutes to draw their boat and encourage them to add any extras to the picture too.
Ideally have coloured markers, so the teams can get creative, it could be a yacht, a viking ship, a container ship, a cruise ship, pirate ship. Teams should be free to design the style of their own boats with 3 requirements – it should have a body – a hull, sails and an anchor. Get the group to draw a boat, a blue wavy line about 2/3 down the page is a good starting point. Updated Slide Template 07/22 Retro Sailing Slides (july 22) 2 colours of post it notes are ideal, one for sails / anchors and one for improvements. Each member of the group will need post its and pens. Retrospective Sailing Full Guide – being agileįor the exercise teams need a large sheet of paper, I like A0 (or whiteboard or similar) on which they can draw a boat and stick post it notes to. Try it with your teams for some constructive fun, practical outcomes, and a useful tool for reviewing and finding a smooth course. You’ll plot your mission and map a way forward that raises those anchors and catches the tide and a fair wind. This game will give you a new and fun way to run a retrospective to help to gain your bearings, identify what’s putting the wind in your sails, the anchors holding you back, and discover hidden treasure. Retrospective Sailing is a game you can play as an individual in any role, as part of a development team, or, with clients and customers to help understand how your journey is fairing. Retrospective Sailing - an agile reflection gameĪ hands on workshop facilitating a practical retrospective game. Try out the Agile Retrospective Sailing game with your teams today, you’ll need something to draw a boat on, some post it notes and pens. Put the wind back in the sails of your team, raise the anchors holding you back. Agile Retrospective Sailing Game – Overview Retrospectives within teams helps to encourage self organisation, management and improvement. There are other great variations of this game too created by others, all games that empower teams to reflect and move forward positively are great news for building an agile culture, and great sign that the approach works well for many teams.įind out more : read : Being Agile in BusinessĪgile retrospectives are a great practice for helping teams to reflect on what’s going well and what could be better, analyse their sails and anchors and identify opportunities for improvement or change. The game is a combination of coaching and agile tools, methods and approaches created and refined over the years working with teams to visualise information and develop ways to help teams to improve their agility. This article is a collation of materials that will help you and your team to play Retrospective Sailing, it includes a step by step guide, Slides, a Video of a workshop in action, and examples of boats that have been created that I am able to share. It can be used for many purposes where you want to review what’s going well, what could go better, and ensure you are responding regularly to the shifting horizon your organisation and teams face. If you are interested in a Being Agile Programme for your team, we offer a Retrospective session as part of designing your custom agile programmeīeing Agile : Retrospective Sailing is one of the most popular games teams adopt to reflect and map their way forward easily, in a fun, tactile and visual way. Workshops and Sessions can be facilitated remotely connecting individually or as a group. Half Day Retrospective workshop for teams.If you are looking for a remote facilitator for your retrospective please do get in touch