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Team Retrospective Template

A two-part retrospective for the end of a project or sprint: review how it went, then agree what to do differently and which improvements come first.

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Template summary

  • Survey
  • 5 questions
  • 2 sections
  • About 3 minutes to answer (estimate)

Look back on a project or sprint and agree what to do next.

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What this template measures

  • How well the project or sprint went overall.
  • What went well and what did not.
  • Which improvements the team wants to prioritize.

Questions included

Section 1: Review

  1. How well did this project or sprint go overall?

    Rating · Required · 0–10 scale

    Rated item: Overall

  2. What went well?

    Text answer · Optional · Up to 1500 characters

  3. What did not go well?

    Text answer · Optional · Up to 1500 characters

Section 2: Next time

  1. What should we do differently next time?

    Text answer · Optional · Up to 1500 characters

  2. Which improvements should we prioritize?

    Ranking · Required

    • Planning
    • Communication
    • Tools
    • Processes

When to use it

  • At the end of a sprint, project or milestone.
  • Before a retrospective meeting, so discussion starts from everyone’s input.
  • For distributed teams that cannot meet in one room.

How to customize it

  • Edit the title, description and any question wording before you create the poll.
  • Add, remove, duplicate or reorder questions, and change whether each one is required.
  • Rename, add or remove sections.
  • Choose settings such as the closing date, result visibility and password protection.

Nothing is saved until you select Create poll. The poll you create is your own copy; changing it never affects the template.

How responses and results work

  • Participants see the results after they respond (the default — you can change it).
  • You see every response on the poll’s manage page and can export them as a CSV file.