Recently our team invested in some NERF guns to have a bit of fun in the office from time to time, this gave me an idea for a retrospective. Since the feedback from the team was really positive I wanted to share the retrospective so you could try it with your teams and hopefully have some fun at your next retrospective session too.

What's the setup?

There are 4 main areas of the NERF wars retrospective:

GUN: – What's our core that means we keep doing well?

BULLETS: – What ammo do we have to make sure we deliver?

MODS: – What mods can we add to make us better?

TARGET: – What should we target to stop doing?

Next you need to draw a NERF gun firing a bullet and a target on the board (see pictures below):

Agile Scrum retrospectives - nerf wars retro example

Then run the retrospective by asking the team to write post-it notes that fall into each of the categories and stick them up on the board in the relevant area, once this has been done it's then an opportunity for the team to discuss the points raised in further detail focusing on the actions that can be taken out of the session.

Feel free to try this retrospective out with your teams and let me know how if it was successful or useful for you.