# What are your favorite/most used retrospective on how testing is done for individuals and for the whole team?

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**Created:** [26 September 2021 16:41 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-most-used-retrospective-on-how-testing-is-done-for-individuals-and-for-the-whole-team/53571 "2021-09-26T16:41:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![emna\_ayadi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/emna_ayadi/32/4541_2.png) [@emna\_ayadi](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/emna_ayadi)\
**Post date:** [26 September 2021 16:41 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-most-used-retrospective-on-how-testing-is-done-for-individuals-and-for-the-whole-team/53571/1 "2021-09-26T16:41:19Z")

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I’m curious to know what are the retrospectives that you use the most to **“evaluate and ameliorate testing activities”** for the **team** as well as **individuals**?

I wanted to share a new thing that I discovered recently, via a new deck of card [more details in this racket](https://racket.com/emna__ayadi/r6BDd) to animate retrospectives in agile teams and see the maturity of testing activities within the team.

The were 5 or 6 categories in which there are ideas in every card where you inspect if they are already in use or not [**Categories:** Planification; Test Automation; General Improvements; Active Testing; Testing Spirit]

I have doubt how to use it in practice with the team ? if we use all the categories maybe we can’t make a short 1 H retrospective unless it’s too general without taking time in all cards.

Shall we focus only on 1 or 2 aspects each time [automation; Planification] and see possible options of improvements or all in one ?

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**Author:** ![kristof](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/kristof/32/10839_2.png) [@kristof](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/kristof)\
**Post date:** [27 September 2021 07:06 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-most-used-retrospective-on-how-testing-is-done-for-individuals-and-for-the-whole-team/53571/2 "2021-09-27T07:06:30Z")

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For me it doesn’t matter much but I like to swap things around so people don’t get retro-sick.  
I prefer to have different kind of formats every time and the one the like can occur more then once just not in a row.

It creates a certain feeling of “we’ll learn something new today” and people are always attending them fully enthusiastic.