Some templates come with Power Retro right from the start to make it easier to jump into Retrospectives immediately after installing it.
These Default templates are:
The Basic 5
Start Stop Continue
This is the agile retrospective most people are familiar with and a great place to start if you’re new to running retrospectives. In a Start, Stop, Continue retrospective meeting you focus on new things your team should start, old habits or practices that aren’t working and should stop, and the good things that should continue. It’s an excellent way to iterate and refine processes, improve projects, or unify teams.
What Went Well
Sailboat
If you’re looking for a way forward, the Sailboat retrospective can get you there. It helps a team visualize their project as a boat journey where obstacles, including rocks, wind, even the boat’s own anchor, stand in the way of reaching the goal. This is a useful retrospective template if you want to pinpoint the things that slow progress (and eliminate them), and highlight the things that accelerate it.
Four Ls
The Four Ls retrospective format takes the Start, Stop, Continue method and goes one step further. Instead of splitting issues into positives and negatives, the four Ls allows for some neutral middle ground. The “learned” section can help you identify lessons that affected the project or process, identify gaps in knowledge in the team, and even help you improve onboarding for new team members.