Combining Lean Coffee and Timeline Mapping offers Scrum teams a structured yet adaptable approach to retrospectives.
It allows them to reflect on their sprint progress within the context of their timeline while ensuring discussions are focused, efficient, and actionable.
Scrum teams benefit from enhanced context for discussions, alignment with Scrum's purposefully incomplete structure, better focus and efficiency, clear, actionable outcomes, increased collaboration, and visual transparency.
However, there are challenges such as the time and effort required to set up the timeline, overcomplicating the discussion, potential slowdown in pace, and decision fatigue.