[al_borland]

We did something like this for a long time. We found it was helpful to change up the questions occasionally. People fell into a rhythm and didn’t have much to bring to the table. When this happened we’d throw in a retro where instead of “what didn’t go well”, we might ask, “what frustrated you”. Asking these slightly different questions brought some fire back to the retro and allowed us to surface some new issues and get them addressed.

Around the holidays we’d switch it up as well. We did a Festivus themed retro where we had the Feats of Strength, Airing of Grievances, etc. Things like that helped keep it interesting. I miss that scrum master…