5 collocation exercises on retrospective vocabulary.
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At the end of each sprint, the team will ___ a retro to reflect on how things went.
To run a retro means to facilitate a retrospective meeting where the team reflects on the sprint. Run is the standard collocation, as in "run a retrospective" and "run the meeting." Drive, steer, and pilot are less idiomatic for facilitating ceremonies. Scrum Masters "run the retro every two weeks," so run a retro is the precise, professional collocation for holding the regular reflection meeting central to agile teams.
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During the retro, the facilitator will ___ feedback from everyone on the team.
To gather feedback means to collect everyone's input and observations. Gather is the standard collocation, as in "gather feedback" and "feedback session." Collect up is informal, and reap and harvest are farming metaphors out of place here. Facilitators "gather feedback before discussing," so gather feedback is the precise, professional collocation for soliciting the team's honest views during a retrospective or review.
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From the discussion, the team will ___ improvements they want to make next sprint.
To identify improvements means to pinpoint specific changes that would help the team. Identify is the standard collocation, as in "identify areas for improvement." Find out, dig up, and sniff out are informal and imprecise. Teams "identify improvements to act on," so identify improvements is the precise, professional collocation for the retro output where the team agrees what to change to work better going forward.
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The team agrees on a few concrete ___ to address the biggest issues.
An action item is a specific, owned task agreed in a meeting to be completed afterward. Action items is the standard term, used across agile and project management. Action points exists in some dialects but action items is the dominant tech-industry phrasing, while act items and doing items are not real terms. Retros end by "capturing action items," so action items is the correct collocation for the concrete follow-ups a team commits to.
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A mature team will ___ on its retro commitments rather than forgetting them.
To follow through means to carry commitments to completion rather than abandoning them. This phrasal verb is essential because retros only improve a team if the agreed actions actually happen. Follow on, follow about, and follow round are not the right phrasal verbs for this meaning. Coaches say "the team must follow through on its actions," so follow through on commitments is the correct collocation for ensuring retro outcomes lead to real change.