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Discuss
Decide
Do next
About this template
Lean Coffee is a structured-yet-agenda-free meeting format adapted for retrospectives. Topics are proposed, voted on, and discussed in priority order with strict timeboxes. It ensures the most important topics get airtime and prevents meetings from dragging on unproductive tangents.
Best for
- Teams with too many topics to discuss
- When previous retros ran over time
- Democratic, participant-driven retrospectives
- Turning open discussions into decisions quickly
Teams
EngineeringProductLeadershipAny team with lots to discuss
How to run it
Everyone adds topics to Discuss. Vote to prioritize. Take the top topic, discuss for 5 minutes, then thumb-vote: keep talking or move on? Move discussed topics to Decide (resolved) or Do Next (needs action). Repeat until time is up.
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