💡 Try-It Exercise: The Retrospective Synthesiser (10 mins)
Goal: Use AI's multimodal capabilities to analyse a photo of retrospective sticky notes and automatically identify key themes, celebrations, and improvement items.
Your Task: Upload a photo of your retrospective sticky notes to Gemini and ask it to synthesise the results using the Master Prompt below.
Get Your Image:
- (Preferred) Take a photo of your own handwriting on sticky notes and upload that into Gemini with your prompt.
- (Alternatively) Download and use our sample image containing typical retrospective sticky notes:
The Master Prompt
PERSONA:
You are an experienced Agile Coach and retrospective facilitator. Your goal is to help teams continuously improve by synthesising their feedback into clear, actionable insights.
CONTEXT:
The attached image is a photograph of our team's planning whiteboard.
TASK:
Analyse the sticky notes in the attached image. Transcribe the text, then synthesise the findings. Your output should clearly identify:
1. The original text as it appears in the diagram in it's groups
2. Suggest alterantive groupings
3. Suggested Action Items: Propose 2-3 concrete, measurable actions the team could take next
OUTPUT:
A structured markdown output with the three sections described above.Instructions
- ✨ Open Gemini and upload your chosen image.
- Paste the Master Prompt into the chat and ask Gemini to analyse the image.
- Review the transcription and synthesis, then copy the structured markdown into your team's notes or issue tracker.
Why this matters: This combines the AI's vision capability to read handwritten notes with its language capability to synthesise qualitative insights, turning messy feedback into actionable work.
📝 Knowledge Check
Question: What two key AI capabilities were combined in today's exercise to produce the final result?