1. Spring 2013 Advising
Starts this week

2. Sprint Review & Retrospective
Two “end of sprint” activities
Sprint review
Sprint retrospective
How do they differ?

3. Review Participants Scrum team
Who
Role
Scrum team
Hear product feedback, answer questions regarding the sprint and product increment
Internal stakeholders
Provide feedback, suggest changes (from what perspective?)
Other internal teams
Provide area-specific feedback (e.g., sales, legal, other development) and sync work
External stakeholders
Provide feedback, suggest changes (who exactly? why?)

4. Review Preparation Sprint review prework
Identify participants (specific people)
Set the schedule (when, duration)
Confirm sprint work is done (DONE)

5. Review Preparation Sprint review prework
Identify participants (specific people)
Set the schedule (when, duration)
Confirm sprint work is done (DONE)
What is the definition of DONE?
Who decides?
When is the decision made? (at end? JITduring sprint?)
Granularity of the decision? (per PBI?)

6. Review Preparation Sprint review prework
Identify participants (specific people)
Set the schedule (when, duration)
Confirm sprint work is done (DONE)
Prepare for demonstration (ceremony?)
Decide who does what (facilitator? demo?)

7. Review Overview Review Sprint backlog items (or sprint goal)
Potentially shippable product
Groomed product backlog
Updated release plan
Present sprint goal, PBIs, actual achievements
Explain any discrepancies
Demonstrate what actually got built
What if it cannot be demonstrated? (Really??)
Discuss state of the product, future direction of the project
Implicit/explicit backlog grooming

8. Retrospective Participants
Who
Role
Scrum team
Reflect on the sprint experience from a process point of view
ScrumMaster
Lead process discussion, help team focus on fidelity to its own chosen process
Product owner
Help address issues with requirements, PBI grooming issues, interaction with team
Other stakeholders
Only if invited by the team; not invited if negative effect on team safety/openness

9. Retrospective Structure
How much time?
Location?
Facilitator?
ScrumMaster
Other team member
Outsider (other ScrumMaster?)
About 1.5 hours for a 2-week sprint, more for longer ones.
Meet in team area or elsewhere? Access to data vs environment more conducive to open discussion.

10. Overview Set atmosphere
Focus
Exercises (or prep)
Objective data
Subjective data
Insight backlog
Retrospective
Improvement actions
Insight backlog
Improved team spirit
Focus: general improvement, or is there something specific we need to work on?
Exercises: create/mine sprint timeline, brainstorm/group insights (determine ahead or select dynamically)
Atmosphere: ground rules for safe/open discussion, active participation
Context: Share perspectives to seek common team understanding of what happened, from objective data; agree on event timeline, emotions seismograph
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Set atmosphere
Share context (common perspective from individual ones)
Identify insights
Determine actions
Close the activity

11. Insights What worked well, or not? Improvement ideas?
Organize insight backlog
Cards on wall A B C D E F

12. Insights What worked well, or not? Improvement ideas?
Organize insight backlog
Cards on wall B D E F
Silent grouping
Pre-existing categories? A C

13. Actions Select insights from new backlog “Dot voting”
Consider timeframe for changes
Decide on actions
Specific task items
General changes B D E F
Specific: improve infrastructure software, tools
General: behavioral, attitudinal A C

14. Follow Through Sprint tasks Include tasks to implement chosen actions
Not a separate “improvement” effort!
Integrate into the next sprint’s work
Specific: improve infrastructure software, tools
General: behavioral, attitudinal

15. Retrospective Issues Not doing one (or not well)
Superficial, not addressing real issues
Watch out for the elephant! (safety?)
Poor execution: facilitation, blame/complain
Too ambitious (or miss ongoing improvements)
Lack of follow-through
Retrospective should not replace ongoing improvement activity during the sprints.

16. What Else?
What else did you learn about sprint reviews and retrospectives?
What questions do you have?