At the end of every sprint, it is a good idea for the team to conduct a retrospective.
The sprint retrospective gives the team the opportunity to reflect on the process of the past week. The simple and effective retrospective processes used by one of the leaders in Agile education is a great place to start and even stay when it comes to reflecting and improving your process.
The Start / Stop / Continue Retrospective.
There are many ways to gather creative ideas using this method, the simplest is letting the team shout out ideas.
The continue items are often ideas that the team is reminded to keep working on and can be included in a display of the previous weeks retrospective results.
The stop items are processes or events that lead to blockers or other inefficiencies.
The start items are new ideas that the team can do to improve the processes.
After the ideas are collected and compiled, it is time to vote.
By focusing on a single item (or a short few), it allows the team to find an area of focus that the team as a whole agrees is an important idea. By focusing on a single, or short list of items the team can choose a focused direction as a theme for the following week.