Sprint Retrospective Template

When to use this template

The sprint retrospective template is for the end-of-sprint or end-of-cycle meeting where a team reflects on what worked, what did not, and what to try next. The Start, Stop, Continue framing is one of the most durable patterns in agile because it forces the team to be specific about practices rather than venting about people.

Use it for two-week scrum sprints, monthly engineering retros, post-launch reviews, and any meeting where the explicit goal is process improvement. Skip it for status meetings (use the project sync template) or for incident post-mortems (which need a different structure focused on timeline and root cause).

How it differs from siblings

The retro template is the only one of the six canonical Meetily templates that does not have a Summary or Discussion Highlights section. That is intentional - the value of a retro is in the lists and the action items, not in the prose recap. The Success Metric column on Action Items also makes this template stand apart: a retro that does not produce measurable commitments tends to repeat the same problems sprint after sprint.

What the AI summary looks like

Meetily fills the Start Doing, Stop Doing, and Continue Doing tables with one row per distinct idea raised - the LLM deduplicates ideas that surface from multiple speakers. The Action Items table is conservative: it only captures explicit commitments where someone took an owner and a deadline. The Notes & Votes section captures any dot-voting outcomes or consensus moments at the end of the meeting.