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title: Create a retrospective board for a sprint in CWM
description: When marking a sprint complete, choose to create a sprint retrospective board for your team to collaborate and reflect on the recent sprint in Collaborative Work Management.
locale: en-US
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release: australia
product: Collaborative Work Management
classification: collaborative-work-management
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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breadcrumb: [Plan sprints, Agile in CWM, Use, Collaborative Work Management, Strategic Portfolio Management]
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# Create a retrospective board for a sprint in CWM

When marking a sprint complete, choose to create a sprint retrospective board for your team to collaborate and reflect on the recent sprint in Collaborative Work Management.

## Before you begin

Role required: sn\_cwm.cwm\_user

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **Workspaces** > **Collaborative Work Management**.

2.  From a Space, select a Board that you're performing sprint planning for.

3.  Select the Sprint planning tab.

4.  From the sprint header, select **Complete Sprint**.

    \[Omitted image "cwm-sprint-complete.png"\] Alt text: Select Complete Sprint from the section of the sprint that you want to mark complete.

5.  Review the details of completed and open items for this sprint.

6.  Move the incomplete items to the next sprint or the backlog.

7.  Select the option create a retrospective Board for this sprint.

8.  Provide a name for your Board.

9.  Select a template to apply to this Board.

    By default, the Agile Retrospective template is applied. If you want to create a different template depending on your requirements, see [Templates in CWM for Boards and Docs](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-business-management/collaborative-work-management/templates-in-cwm-for-spaces-boards-and-docs.md).

    \[Omitted image "cwm-sprint-retro-board-create.png"\] Alt text: Choose a template to create a retro board for this sprint.

10. Select **Complete Sprint**.


## Result

A new retrospective Board is created for the sprint that is just marked complete within the same Space. You can navigate to the new board from the success message or from the left navigation panel.\[Omitted image "cwm-sprint-retro-sample-board.png"\] Alt text: Sample retro board for a sprint.

**Parent Topic:**[Sprint planning in CWM](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-business-management/collaborative-work-management/agile-sprint-planning-in-cwm.md)