This document provides a template for conducting a retrospective meeting to review a project. The template outlines 9 steps: 1) Overview of the retro, 2) Observations, 3) Identified patterns, 4) Causes of patterns, 5) Applicable Agile principles, 6) Potential actions, 7) Selected actions to take, 8) Appreciating others' insights, 9) Review of the retro meeting. For each step, it provides prompting questions to guide the discussion.

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1. Overview of Retro in Hall
2. Provide 1-2
Observations in
Conservatory
3. Note Patterns in the
Study ~
Examine across observations ~
4. ID causes to the patterns
in the Billiard Room
5. What Agile Principles
apply in the Library
~ Examine across causes ~
6. ID actions that apply
principles to causes ~
Wait here ~
7. Select actions to take
8. Appreciate others in the
Lounge
9. Review in Ballroom
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2. Ask yourself:
What have you
observed as behaviors
that are working really
well or not so well?
3. Ask yourself:
What patterns seem to
emerge?
4. Ask yourself:
What is likely to have
caused these
patterns?
5. Ask yourself:
What Agile Principles
would help us
overcome these
causes?
6. Ask yourself:
What possible actions
would help us and
remain true to the
principles we
identified?
7. Ask ourselves:
What 1-2 actions are
ones in which we can
commit?
8. Ask yourself:
Who has really helped
provide insight in
today’s retro?