The retrospective process - ICEBREAKER
An icebreaker is a great way to get your team talking in a fun, easy, and engaging way. It helps everyone feel comfortable and sets a positive tone for your retrospective. This is an optional step.
You can set up different types of icebreakers:
- A random icebreaker based on a category
- An AI-generated question tailored to your theme and prompts
- A custom question that you write or edit yourself
Create an icebreaker
Navigate to the RETROSPECTIVES tab within a specific team.
START A RETROSPECTIVE and select from our ready-to-use templates or choose a BLANK TEMPLATE if you wish to start from scratch.
- Click on the PROCESS tab and enable the ICEBREAKER step. Then, create a CUSTOM question, or select a CATEGORY and LANGUAGE from the drop down list.
- If you wish to explore creating an AI Generated icebreaker, choose any category for the time being as you will have the option to provide a prompt later.
- Customize your process and then START RETROSPECTIVE.
- The icebreaker will appear as a step. TeamRetro's icebreaker features include:
- A TIMER to keep things on track
- A NAME SPINNER to randomly pick participants
- Options to ADD OR REMOVE NAMES
- REACTIONS for quick, fun feedback
- LIVE MEETING FEEDBACK to capture how the team is feeling
- Here, you will have the option to click AI and provide a prompt to have AI generate a set of unique icebreakers for you. Suggestions for icebreaker questions and their purpose will be displayed.
- You can use the icebreaker at any point of the meeting.
- Once your icebreaker wraps up, your team will be ready to move on to the WELCOME stage and kick off the retrospective.