Idea Prioritization
A focused format for turning a pile of ideas into a clear plan of action. The team sorts proposals into low, medium and high priority, making it obvious where to direct energy first. It's especially handy at the end of a brainstorm, when many ideas need to be ranked before anything can move forward.
Worth doing eventually, nothing breaks if it waits
Roman
Rename the settings tabs — confusing but nobody is blocked
Maria
Add a dark theme to the admin panel
Should happen in the next cycle or two
Anna
Cache the reports page, it takes 6 seconds to load
Daria
Write onboarding docs for the billing service
Costs the team or customers now — pick these up first
Maria
Fix the export that silently drops rows over 10k
Kirill
Add alerting on failed payments — we found out from a customer
Low Priority
- Ideas that can be deferred or deprioritized without causing significant impact
Medium Priority
- Ideas that are important but can be addressed in due time
High Priority
- Ideas that require immediate attention and have a high impact on the outcome
Similar templates
Other formats teams pair with this one — open any of them as a board in one click.
Harry Potter
A themed retrospective that wraps familiar questions in the magic of Hogwarts. Felix Felicis collects the good things, Baruffio's Brain Elixir what the team learned, Petrificus Totalus what slowed it down, and the Triwizard Cup the shout-outs, all closing with clear action items. The playful framing lowers the guard and invites more candid feedback.
KALM Retrospective
KALM frames improvement around the value the team's practices deliver. Participants decide what to keep because it works, what to add that's currently missing, what to do more of and what to do less of. The four simple verbs make it easy to tune day-to-day habits without a heavy process.
Marie Kondo Method
Inspired by the famous tidying method, this retrospective asks the team to declutter the way it works. Practices that bring joy are worth keeping, those that went wrong are thrown out, and the rest are recycled — improved and reused. The metaphor turns process cleanup into a surprisingly enjoyable conversation.
Game of Thrones
A themed retrospective that maps the team's reality onto a fantasy kingdom. The castle is what the team is great at, the hole the current problems, the wall what could make it stronger, and the White Walkers the looming risks and challenges. The story-driven framing makes a strategic conversation feel engaging and easy to join.
Love - Want - Hate - Learn
An emotionally honest format that gives feelings a clear place in the retrospective. Participants finish four sentences — I love, I want to, I hate and now I know that — to surface what energizes them, what they wish for, what frustrates them and what they've realized. The personal phrasing invites genuine, first-person reflection.
Kudos Retrospective
A retrospective that opens with gratitude before getting down to business. Kudos lets the team recognize each other first, then it reviews what went well, what to improve and the action items to follow up on. Starting with appreciation sets a positive, psychologically safe tone for the harder parts of the conversation.
