Introduction
Overview
Introduction
A brief overview of the Mission Retrospective process and how teams will use the collaboration workflow.
Mission Retrospective - Introduction
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Mission Retrospective
Team Collaboration Board
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Use this collaboration board to capture the analysis, insights, and agreed actions from your Mission Retrospective.
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Participants Present
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Opening Context Not started
Capture your teaming context and confirm whether you are working as a stable, intact team or teaming together for the first time/on-the-fly.
Teaming Context Definitions
Intact team: A stable team of people who work together repeatedly over time, with established goals, norms, roles, and ways of working.
Teaming-on-the-Fly: A temporary or rapidly formed team of people who must collaborate quickly, often without shared history, established roles, or established ways of working.
Teaming Context required.
Select either Intact Team or Teaming-on-the-Fly before completing Step 3.
Step 1 — Review the Mission Timeline Not started
Review the mission timeline to build a shared understanding of what happened.
Pivotal Moments
After reviewing the mission timeline, identify 2–5 Pivotal Moments that would be worth analyzing in Step 2.
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Step 2 — Examine a Pivotal Moment Not started
Choose one pivotal moment from the list above to analyze.
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B. Identify Insights
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Using a series of probing questions — both broadening and deepening — capture insights about your team’s dynamic.
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C. Synthesize Core Insights (from Section B)
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Review the insights captured in Section B and synthesize them into 2–3 higher-level Core Insights. Do not add new raw observations here; combine and name what matters most.
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Step 3 — Connect Insights to Actions Not started
Select Teaming Context before completing Step 3.
Step 3 changes depending on whether the team is an Intact Team or Teaming-on-the-Fly. Return to Opening Context and select a Teaming Context so the correct action-planning prompts are shown.
A. Relate Core Insights
Consider where each Core Insight shows up in your day-to-day working environment. How often do they occur? What is their impact on team effectiveness? Then select one to build your Plan of Action around.
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B. Develop Plan of Action
Select a Core Insight above to develop your Plan of Action.Convert the Core Insight selected above into a Plan of Action for your team. Keep the output clear, timely, and feasible.
Step 1
Review
Review of the Mission Timeline
How to establish a shared understanding of what happened and identify the most important pivotal moments.
Step 2
Insights
Examine a Pivotal Moment
How to use broadening and deepening questions to surface insights and distill them into core insights.
Step 3
Actions
Connect Insights to Actions
How to relate core insights to day-to-day work and build a concrete, shared plan of action.
Conclusion
Close
Conclusion
A short closing video that reinforces how to wrap up the retrospective and carry the learning forward.
After your team has watched the introductory video and selected a Team Scribe, proceed to Step 1 of the Mission Retrospective with the Team Lead clicking the button on the right.