Run retrospectives and continuous improvements with Rovo
10 min
By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to:
- See how Scrum masters can use Rovo to run insightful retrospectives
- Explore how to use Rovo to surface blockers and improvement opportunities
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement on your agile team
Facilitate efficient retrospectives and continuous improvements
👉 Our scenario: Lisa leads the Concord Web team which is responsible for delivering new features to the Concord Web platform. Her team works in two-week sprints, and she’s determined to make retrospectives more actionable and ensure continuous improvement.
Rovo integrates with Jira, Confluence, and team communication tools, using AI to analyze sprint data, feedback, and team activity. It surfaces trends, summarizes feedback, and helps track improvement actions, allowing Lisa to focus on coaching and team growth.
Prepare and run a retrospective with Rovo
Lisa is preparing for the end-of-sprint retrospective. She wants to ensure the session is focused on process bottlenecks and communication gaps, that all voices are heard, and that improvement actions are tracked and followed up on.
👇 Click the boxes below to explore how Lisa prepares for a retrospective.
Automate improvement action generation
Lisa wants to ensure improvement actions are visible and reviewed in future retrospectives, so she decides to create an automation that publishes them in the project’s Slack channel at the end of every sprint.
To set up an automation:
1. Lisa goes to the Concord Web Project settings.
2. From the sidebar, she selects Automation.
3. She creates a new rule and adds these components:
Trigger | Sprint completed |
Actions | 1. Add the Use Rovo agent action. There is no default agent specifically designed for generating retrospectives; however, we can use the Progress Tracker agent in this case. 2. Select the Progress Tracker Agent. 3. Enter the prompt: Provide improvement actions based on sprint {{sprint.name}} in Concord Web project. Add the Send Slack message action to send the summary to the team’s Slack channel. An example of Slack message: Retrospective for sprint {{sprint.name}} in Concord Web: {{agentResponse}} |
4. She clicks Turn on rule and names it Generate retrospective at sprint completion.
Test the automation
Lisa tests the automation by completing a sprint. Rovo automatically posts a summary of improvement actions to the team’s Slack channel. This keeps the team accountable and ensures continuous improvement is visible and actionable.