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Define the period to review
Name the sprint, project, or event. Provide actual reflections or ask for an empty board with facilitation prompts.
4Ls Retrospective Maker
Describe your sprint and AI builds Liked, Learned, Lacked, and Longed For columns for the team.
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How to make a 4Ls retrospective
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Separate the four perspectives
Group positive experiences, new learning, missing essentials, and future wishes. Preserve disagreements instead of forcing consensus.
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Choose follow-up experiments
Review themes with participants and select a few actions. Add an owner and a check-in date to each agreed experiment.
What are the four Ls?
A 4Ls retrospective asks what people liked, learned, lacked, and longed for during a shared experience. The categories make room for appreciation and learning as well as gaps and aspirations.
When to use the four perspectives
Use them when a team wants more than a list of problems after a sprint or project. The fixed example is a Start/Stop/Continue board with three columns; request four named Ls for this retrospective format.
Rules for a useful 4Ls discussion
- Anchor feedback in the period. Use observations from the work being reviewed rather than unrelated history.
- Distinguish lacked from longed for. Use lacked for missing essentials and longed for for desired improvements, agreeing on the distinction together.
- Do not fabricate participation. Generated prompts can support a session, but actual feedback must come from participants.
- Keep mixed experiences visible. One person’s positive experience can coexist with another person’s difficulty.
- Finish with a small commitment. Select a manageable experiment and define how the team will review its result.
How MyMap arranges the retrospective
MyMap groups your reflections into the four requested sections. Ask it to suggest neutral discussion prompts, cluster repeated observations, or organize agreed actions beneath the board.
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Common questions
Why does the example have only three columns?
It is a fixed Start/Stop/Continue example, a related retrospective format. A 4Ls board needs Liked, Learned, Lacked, and Longed For sections.
What is the difference between lacked and longed for?
A useful distinction is missing essentials versus desired future improvements. Explain the distinction at the start, since teams may use the labels differently.
Can AI generate the team’s feedback?
It can generate questions or clearly labeled sample responses. It cannot know participants’ experiences, so use their actual observations for the retrospective itself.
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