A while back I went to Rachel Davies excellent ‘Inspect & Adapt with Agile Retrospectives‘ talk about agile retrospectives at a Software East.

One thing that has stuck in my head ever since has been her tip about getting people to draw a picture to represent how the sprint went.

The fact that it’s simple and easy to do is what makes it’s great.

She gave two examples, one was a group of people climbing half way up a very steep mountain and the other was a stretched limousine packed full of people without a driver.

This is definitely worth trying out in your retrospectives becuase it’s an excellent way to lighten the mood and get people contributing.

Whether you decide to keep it anonymous or not is up to you.

Here’s a drawing I’ve shown in a retrospective.