What is a Sprint Retrospective? A Sprint Retrospective is a regularly scheduled event where members of a Scrum Team reflect on their way of working, as part of the inspect and adapt process, in a spirit of continuous improvement. Some Agile practitioners consider the Sprint Retrospective to be the most important of the five Scrum...Read More

What is a Sprint Review? There is a meeting that occurs at the end of a Sprint, in Scrum, where one or more Scrum Teams provide insight to stakeholders into work that they completed during the Sprint. For software teams, it’s preferred for most of the time, and the conversation, to be devoted to a...Read More

What is Sprint Planning? In Scrum, a meeting that initiates an iteration (Sprint), where members of the Scrum Team collaborate to agree on outcome(s) for that Sprint, and select work items that help achieve the outcome(s). What’s the Benefit? The primary benefits of Sprint Planning are that it helps ensure members of the team all...Read More

What is a Daily Scrum? In Scrum, teams have a short meeting, not to exceed 15 minutes, on a daily basis,  where they seek to share knowledge, identify areas where help might be needed or can be given, surface dependencies or risks, and agree on next steps to address anything that might be impeding the...Read More