How to use the Release retrospective template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Release retrospective template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Release retrospective”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Bring the numbers (bugs, rollbacks, support tickets) before opinions. Each section should end with something the next release does differently.”
Fill in each part
- Planned vs shipped What made it in, what slipped, and why?
- Quality signals Bugs, rollbacks, incidents and support tickets after release.
- Hand-offs Where did work wait between people or teams?
- Communication Did customers, support and sales know what was coming?
- What went well What should every release do from now on?
- Next release changes Two or three changes, each with an owner.
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Release retrospective board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

Straw, sticks, bricks retro
Sort the team’s practices by how sturdy they are: flimsy ones that fall over, shaky ones that need work, solid ones to build on.
Four-box retro
A quick retro on one board: what went well, what didn’t, new ideas, and thank-yous to the people who helped.
Bug triage board
A kanban for incoming bugs, from new to fixed, with a severity guide everyone agrees on.
Team dependencies board
Who is waiting on whom across teams, by when, and how healthy each hand-off is, so blockers surface before planning day.
Code review checklist
The questions a reviewer runs through on every change, agreed by the team, with examples of what each one catches.
Ready and done checklists
Agree what an item needs before the team starts it, and what has to be true before anyone calls it done.