Retrospective Activity
🏀 Play ball!
Playful Medium Popularity: 2
This activity:
- Easy metaphor to follow
- Requires some training
- Focuses on actions done
- Highlights areas for improvement
Introduction
Participants are considered a basketball team which is testing their performance in the court shooting for baskets. There are three shooting baskets boards to choose from, free-throws which are things the team consider easy or trivial, two-pointers for things of moderate difficulty and three-pointers for things that require a big effort.
For the specific activity, the facilitator could use these points to describe the process:
- The Free-throws column is for notes that describe tasks and processes that are considered easy to do.
- The Two-pointers column is for notes that describe tasks and processes that are considered of moderate difficulty to apply.
- The Three-pointers column is for notes that describe tasks and processes that are considered hard and require effort to implement.
Onboarding the team to the selected activity is important for a successful meeting. To learn more on what's needed to onboard your team to a retrospective meeting, read here.
Tips & Tricks
Play ball activity is good for reflecting team work over a big period of time, as members will have a lot of notes to disrtibute.
Popularity: 2
The "🏀 Play ball!" activity is sometimes used among Team O'clock teams. It seems that only a few teams use this activity for their retrospectives.
Recap
🏀 Play ball!
Playful Medium
Free-throws
Things that are considered easy
Two-pointers
Things that are of moderate difficulty
Three-pointers
Things that require a big effort and are difficult