Starfish Retrospective Template
Starfish retro — keep, more of, less of, stop, start. Free to run online — live board, anonymous-friendly cards, dot-voting, timers, and action items that follow your team sprint to sprint.
⬆️ Keep Doing
⬇️ Less Of
➕ More Of
🛑 Stop Doing
🚀 Start Doing
Five lenses instead of three, so feedback lands with nuance: not everything is 'stop' or 'continue' — some things just need more or less. Good teams use it to fine-tune practices that mostly work.
Best for: Mature teams whose problems are dials to adjust, not fires to put out.
How to run it
- Open a board and share the invite link — teammates join free with Google or a one-time email code.
- Add cards to each column (5–10 minutes, timer built in), then dot-vote what matters most.
- Discuss the top votes and commit action items with owners.
- Next retro, the actions come back automatically — done, carry, or drop. That loop is the point.
No card required · unlimited boards on the free plan