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aliases: ["Write Q4 retrospective"]
Is A: Task
Belongs to: "[[25q4]]"
Status: Open
Owner: "[[person-luca-rossi]]"
---
# Write Q4 retrospective

The Q4 2025 retrospective is both a quarterly review and the year-end capstone for the 2025 goal cycle. This retro covers Q4 performance across all tracked measures, but more importantly, it provides a comprehensive assessment of the annual goals: [[2025-reach-22k-mrr]], [[2025-reach-85k-subscribers]], and [[2025-ship-laputa]]. The retro feeds directly into 2026 goal-setting and strategic planning.

Following the template established in the Q1 2024 retrospective (the first task in this vault), this retro should cover metrics, narrative, learnings, and action items. However, because it is also an annual retro, it should include an additional section reflecting on the two-year arc of the business from early 2024 through end of 2025.

## Acceptance criteria

- [ ] Pull final Q4 and full-year 2025 metrics for all tracked measures
- [ ] Write quarterly narrative for Q4 (metrics, wins, misses)
- [ ] Write annual narrative for 2025 including assessment against each annual goal
- [ ] Identify top 5 learnings from 2025 and top 5 priorities for 2026
- [ ] Share the retro with [[person-paco-furiani]], [[person-sara-ricci]], and [[person-matteo-cellini]] for input

## Notes

- This retro will be significantly more substantial than the quarterly retros, likely 3,000-4,000 words. Allocate a full day for writing and reflection.
- The retro should be honest about goal misses (several targets across two years were narrowly missed) and what this pattern reveals about target-setting methodology.
- Consider publishing a condensed version of the annual retro as a newsletter edition, similar to the [[24q4]] annual review post. The 2024 version was the most-shared edition of the year, so a 2025 version could perform similarly for [[2025-reach-85k-subscribers]].
