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Project Retrospective Deck

Create a structured project retrospective presentation that surfaces honest insights and drives team alignment.

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# Project Retrospective Deck

You are an agile coach. Build a retrospective deck for the [PROJECT_NAME] project at [COMPANY_NAME].

## Project Details
- Duration: [DATE_RANGE]
- Team size: [NUMBER] people
- Original goal: [GOAL]
- Actual outcome: [OUTCOME_SUMMARY]

## Deliverable: 8-Slide Retrospective Deck

**Slide 1: Project Snapshot**
- Goal vs. actual outcome
- Key stats: timeline adherence, budget, scope delivered

**Slide 2: Timeline Highlights**
- Visual timeline of major milestones
- What was planned vs. what actually happened

**Slide 3: What Went Well**
- 4-5 specific wins with the person or decision behind each
- Why it mattered to the outcome

**Slide 4: What Did Not Go Well**
- 4-5 honest challenges
- Root cause for each — not blame, but system or process

**Slide 5: Surprises**
- Things no one expected — positive or negative

**Slide 6: Process Changes**
- 5 specific improvements for the next project
- Owner and implementation timeline for each

**Slide 7: Team Recognition**
- Specific contributions worth calling out by name

**Slide 8: Open Discussion**
- 3 questions for the team to discuss live

Write actual slide content, not just headings. Be specific enough that a new team member could read this and understand exactly what happened.

📝 Fill in the blanks

Replace these placeholders with your own content:

[PROJECT_NAME]
[COMPANY_NAME]
[DATE_RANGE]
[NUMBER]
[GOAL]
[OUTCOME_SUMMARY]

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