How to use the Retrospective template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Retrospective template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Retrospective”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Take 5 quiet minutes per column, then group similar notes and agree on 1–3 actions, each with an owner.”
Fill in each part
- Went well
- To improve
- Action items
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 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.

Retrospectives: Guided retros: write alone under a timer, reveal, group, vote and leave with owned actions.
Jira planning: Turn sticky notes into Jira issues on Cloud or Data Center, and keep both in step.

Start, stop, continue
A quick retro: what to begin, what to drop, what to keep, and one experiment.
Project end retrospective
Close a project properly: goals against results, what helped and hurt, the surprises and the lessons the next team should get.
Daily standup
One row per teammate for what moved, what’s next and blockers, plus a parking lot.
Liked, learned, lacked, longed for
A reflective retro in four quadrants that looks at learning, not only problems.
Hot air balloon retro
A picture-led retro: what lifts the team, what weighs it down, the weather ahead and where the balloon should go next.
Mad, sad, glad retro
A feelings-first retro: what frustrated people, what disappointed them, what made them glad, and one thing to try.