Among Us Retro

🔎 Find the imposter!

⏱️ 1 to 2 hours

Inspired the pandemic sensation, Among Us, this retro encourages active listening of participants to discern fact from fiction... Facilitators will inject small falsehoods among a chosen participant's other retrospective feedback. It will be up to the imposter to play along when feeding back to the group - and the others to catch them out!

Step 1

Each participant should choose their colour character. Ensure that everyone has collaborator cursors hidden.

Step 2

Start a 10-minute timer, during which time participants should fill out the post-it notes around their respective character. These should be filled with the usual content of a retrospective: thoughts, feelings, qualms, and questions.

Step 3

While participants are filling out their post-it notes, the facilitator randomly chooses an "imposter". The facilitator should insert a fake post-it note amongst the "imposter's" own content. For larger groups, choose two "imposters".

Step 4

Once the time is up, the facilitator will go around each participant and ask them to read through all of their feedback. The "imposter" has the extra task of making up information about their fake post-it note too, and pretending that it is one of their own.

Step 5

At the end of the retro, use the Voting tool to have participants vote on who they think the traitor is. Open voting and select only the character images; give each participant one vote per imposter and allow only one vote per object. See if everyone was paying attention!