13 retrospective questions
For corporate
- 1
What is one thing we should stop doing after this project?
- 2
What is one thing we should do again exactly the same?
- 3
Which of these best describes how this went?
- Better than planned
- About right
- Late but good
- Late and rough
- We should talk
- 4
What is the moment it turned, for better or worse?
- 5
What did you know early that you did not say early?
- 6
Who made this easier than it would have been, and how?
- 7
What did we tell ourselves that turned out not to be true?
- 8
What would you tell a team about to start the same thing?
- 9
What did you personally get wrong, and what did it cost?
- 10
What did we not talk about during this that we should have?
- 11
What are you tired of that this project made worse?
- 12
What is one measurable thing we will do differently next time?
- 13
What did we learn about how we make decisions under pressure?
Try answering these at the same time
Reading a question out loud means whoever answers first sets the tone for everyone else. In Answersealed you each answer privately, and the answers only open once everyone has replied — so you get what people actually thought.
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