Moodboards
Anonymous team mood and energy check-ins with 5 built-in formats. Track sentiment over time with history charts. Give everyone a voice.
5 built-in mood formats
Mood Check
Emoji scale from happy to unhappy. Simple and universal.
Energy Level (1-5)
Quick numeric energy rating. Great for stand-ups.
Mad / Sad / Glad
Classic retrospective format. Emotional temperature check.
Sailboat
Wind (helps us), Anchor (holds us back), Rocks (risks ahead).
Start / Stop / Continue
Actionable feedback on team practices and processes.
What makes moodboards powerful
What a mood check picks up that a status update misses
Standups tell you what happened to the work. They tell you almost nothing about what is happening to the people doing it. Someone can report three days of steady progress in a completely level voice while quietly running out of patience with a codebase, a stakeholder, or a stretch of on-call. By the time that reaches you through normal channels it usually arrives as a resignation or a sprint that falls apart for no visible reason.
A moodboard asks the question directly and anonymously, which is the only way most people will answer it honestly in front of their manager. It takes thirty seconds, and unlike a quarterly engagement survey it happens often enough to show you a direction rather than a snapshot.
Five formats and when each one fits
Mood Check is the emoji scale, and it is the right default for a recurring pulse because it asks for no interpretation. Energy Level suits the start of a standup when you want to know whether the team has anything left in the tank this week. Mad, Sad, Glad is the classic retro opener and gives people permission to name a feeling rather than a process failure.
Sailboat and Start, Stop, Continue are structured differently: they collect direction rather than sentiment. Use them when the retro needs to end in decisions. A useful pattern is to open a retro with a quick Mood Check to see where the room is, then switch to Sailboat for the conversation itself. You can run both rounds in the same ScrumMastr room.
Read the trend, not the round
A single mood round is mostly noise. Somebody had a bad commute, somebody else just shipped something they are proud of. The value shows up over four or five rounds, which is why ScrumMastr keeps history charts across rounds and shows you the distribution rather than just an average. An average of three can be a team that is uniformly fine or a team that is split down the middle between delighted and miserable. Those two teams need very different conversations, and the distribution view is the only thing that tells them apart.
What you are looking for is a sustained slide, or a split that keeps reappearing in the same shape. One rough sprint after a hard release is normal. Three in a row is a pattern, and patterns are worth naming out loud in the next retro.
Keeping the answers honest
Anonymity does the heavy lifting, but it is not sufficient on its own. If people watch a low round produce a round of one-to-one meetings hunting for the person who submitted it, they will never submit a low round again. Respond to the aggregate, in the open, and let the team decide what to do about it.
Two more things that keep response rates up: do not run it so often that it becomes wallpaper, and always close the loop. If a mood check leads to a change, say which change and say why. The fastest way to kill a pulse check is to collect the data and visibly do nothing with it.
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