Highs and Lows
The quarter in two sentences each.
A shorter, more work-focused sibling of Rose, Bud, Thorn, pointed at a specific period rather than at how someone is doing generally. Good as the opening five minutes of a retrospective, where it stops the meeting from going straight to the low.
Run this when…
The situations it was built for. If none of these is the room you have, it is probably the wrong activity.
- A quarterly review
- A project post-mortem
- A team closing out a long release
How it runs
Everyone types a short answer and it lands on the big screen as it arrives.
- 1You start a session and put the code on the big screen.
- 2Everyone joins on their phone — no app, no sign-up, just the code.
- 3You drive the pace from the host screen; the room answers as they go.
- 4Ending the session builds the report, with every answer in it.
Running it well
Only the host sees these. Participants never do.
- Name the period precisely — "this quarter", not "recently". Vague windows produce vague answers.
- Take the lows first in the discussion. Leading with highs makes the lows sound like complaints.
This one needs a warm room
It asks for real candour. In a group that has already loosened up it is the best thing in the Library; in a cold room it lands somewhere between awkward and harmful. Run an icebreaker or an energiser first.
Run it yourself
Free for thirty days, no card. Add it, share the code, and your room is playing in about fifteen seconds.
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- Players
- 3–150
- Runs for
- 8–14 min
- Where
- Remote or in person
- Big screen
- Required
- Teams
- Individual only
- Best for
- Candour & trust