Hands up if you think the world needs another format for retrospectives. Yeah, right. Yet here I am. Last October, when it was my turn to facilitate our team retro it was clear that we were becoming jaded. After a phase of novelty themes (at the festival, NSYNC, 8-bit video games, ...) and a long stretch of Stop Start Continue , engagement was sliding. I wanted to use a different format and I had some specific requirements for it: a simple and intuitive structure, invitations to express feelings, and opportunities to be publicly grateful. I didn't find an existing template that fit the bill so I made one up, just four columns in a basic table with these headers: Kudos to ... 'cos of ... I like it when ... I feel meh about ... I don't like it when ... I expected it to be a one-off palate cleanser but it's proven popular and we've been using it for six months straight. There's no originality in those categories, by the way: I see a strong family ...