Quick answer
An annual team retrospective reviews a whole year of working together — too big for a standard retro format, so it needs its own structure.
Format for a 2-hour session
Timeline exercise (10 min): map the year’s highs and lows. Theme clustering (20 min). Deep-dive top 2 themes (40 min). Commitments (20 min).
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Questions that work
What should we keep doing? Stop? Start? What’s the single biggest unlock for next year? What are we not saying?
Remote-friendly version
Silent written input first (async board a day before), then a 90-minute call for clustering and decisions only.
Closing the loop
Publish 3 commitments with owners, and review them at the Q1 retro — an annual retro without follow-up is a ritual, not a tool.
Bottom line
An annual team retrospective reviews a whole year of working together — too big for a standard retro format, so it needs its own structure.
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