Delivery Management

The Sprint Retrospective

A deeper understanding on an opportunity for the team to develop transparency and inspect and adapt.

Sjoerd Nijland

Dec 08, 2018 • 12 min read

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Retrospective

Scrum

Continuous Improvement

Adaptation

Kaizen

Summary

Sjoerd Nijland provides in-depth information about Sprint Retrospectives noting that their main purpose is to encourage improvements within the Scrum framework. They give the Scrum team the opportunity to identify improvements to be made based on the previous Sprint, inspect these upgrades, then adapt to implement them during the next Sprint. But, how often should you hold the Sprint Retrospective, how long should it take, and who are the right people to attend this meeting? Let's find out these and more here.

Takeaways

A Sprint Retrospective is a meeting held by the Scrum team at the end of Sprint after the Sprint Review to identify mistakes made during the previous Sprint, then improve and adapt for the next Sprint.
The Retrospective is not just about the work processes and tools, but very much about people and relationships too.
The main goal of a Sprint Retrospective is to encourage improvements within the Scrum framework.