Delivery Management

The Sprint Review

Optimizing value and creating transparency between team and stakeholders over the product increment.

Sjoerd Nijland

Nov 22, 2018 • 10 min read

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Sprint Review

Agile

Continuous Improvement

Retrospective

Sprint Goal

Summary

Are you interested to know more about the Sprint Review and the value that it drives to an organization? Sprint Reviews are informal meetings held consecutively to discuss about the product increment with the intent of obtaining feedback and fostering collaboration between the Scrum Team and the stakeholders. However, who should be available in the Sprint Review, when should it be held, how should it be prepared, and how long should it take? Sjoerd Nijland provides the answers to these questions and more with deeper explanations.

Takeaways

A Sprint Review is an informal meeting, not a status meeting, where the product increment is presented to elicit feedback and foster collaboration.
A Sprint Review is held at the end of the Sprint prior to the Sprint Retrospective and should take at most 4 hours.
The Scrum team and the Scrum masters should self-organize a material that includes the refined product backlog, the sprint goal, the definition of Done, etc. when preparing for the Sprint Review.
The goal of the Sprint Review is to inspect the increment and adapt the product backlog if needed to optimize value.