Remote and distributed teams
Short prompts that work over video—async-friendly, low bandwidth, and easy to facilitate when energy is uneven.
Questions
React with an emoji that describes your sprint
In chat or on the board, each person posts one emoji. Optional: one sentence of context if time allows.
In one word, what was your sprint weather?
A thirty-second round where everyone shares a single word that captures how the sprint felt—stormy, foggy, sunny, humid.
Show one object from your desk or workspace
Each person holds up or pastes a photo of one object and shares what it says about how they worked this sprint.
Drop your mood on the board before we meet
Open the board twenty-four hours ahead with a single column or sticky prompt: “Mood going into retro.”