🤖 Prompt 7 of 7
Retrospective Prompts: Structured Improvement Discovery
Use this at the end of every sprint. Your team has just lived the sprint. The memory is fresh. This is when you capture what actually happened versus what you expected.
From the article 7 AI Prompts for Sprint Planning: Backlog to Execution
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Prompt 7
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Prompt
Let's talk about this sprint:
1. Velocity: We committed to [X] points and completed [Y].
Why the gap (if any)? What assumptions were wrong?
2. Quality: Did we find bugs in testing? In production?
What would have caught them earlier?
3. Collaboration: Where did we get stuck waiting for someone else?
How do we prevent that next sprint?
4. Scope: Did we change scope mid-sprint? Why?
How do we protect the sprint boundary next time?
5. One thing we'll do differently next sprint:
What is it? Who's accountable for making it happen? More prompts from this article
- #1 Sprint Goal Definition: Capacity-Aligned Goal Extraction
- #2 Backlog Prioritization: Value-vs-Complexity Ranking
- #3 User Story Estimation: Assumption-Surfacing Questions
- #4 Task Breakdown: Dependency and Blocker Identification
- #5 Daily Standup: Progress-and-Blockers Prompts
- #6 Sprint Review Preparation: Stakeholder-Ready Demo Prompts