In the era of continuous delivery, organizations release software quickly and frequently through automated build deployments. Scrum, as a classic Agile framework practiced by many r&d teams, consists of three roles, five conferences, and twelve principles. Sprint Review is an important meeting in Scrum. In practice, more and more teams are using one-off feature reviews instead of Sprint reviews in order to get feedback from users and stakeholders as early as possible to adapt to changes. Will Scrum teams stick with Sprint Review in the era of continuous delivery? What’s the value of Sprint Review?
What is Sprint Review?
Scrum breaks the entire development process into multiple sprints to improve the features being built and progressively improve the product.
The Sprint requires planning-implementation-review-Retrospective, which is performed at the end of the Sprint to Review the incremental product delivered and adjust the product backlog as needed.
Scrum Iteration Flowchart
Value of Sprint Review
The purpose of Sprint Review is to get feedback on the products delivered in this iteration, to respond to business needs, to ensure implementation and to avoid developing features that have no value to users. Sprint Review brings together everyone involved in the process, showcasing multiple features and features to help stakeholders think through the whole process and optimize and improve the product as a whole.
It is difficult for teams to optimize and improve overall, and through ritualized meeting mechanisms, continuous learning and discussion, team members clearly know that each delivery is a usable version of the software, rather than pure product features. Sprint Review integrates a culture of continuous delivery into the team to ensure the pace and quality of development.
Each element in Scrum interacts in a subtle way, and tailoring modules arbitrarily breaks the agile rhythm. Sprint Review is an essential part of agile. So how do you efficiently complete a Sprint Review and get enough feedback?
Sprint Review success points
1. In the preparation stage of the meeting, PO should determine the presentation plan and presentation date according to the iteration planning cycle and type, and synchronize the presentation environment and data with team members in ONES Wiki to improve the meeting efficiency;
The ONES Wiki shares documentation and deposits team knowledge
2. Determine the meeting moderator, control the meeting process and direction, and avoid turning the meeting into a simple presentation meeting.
Sprint Review is not Sprint Demo, Sprint Demo is one-way communication, whereas Spirnt Review is two-way communication. It not only shows the results of this iteration, but also requires the internal members of the project team (including PO, SM, development and testing, etc.) and external stakeholders of the project team (including customers, end users, etc.) to ask each other questions and feedback to check whether the new function meets customer needs.
3. It is suggested that PO carry out the operation, explain the current completed functions and remaining problems or risks, and all participants give feedback or suggestions based on experience and demonstration, which will be recorded into Sprint or Product Backlog according to priority;
The ONES Project to-do list
4. After the Sprint Review, if the launch standard is not reached, PO shall guide team members to form an “action plan” of the problem according to the demonstration feedback and execute it until the next demonstration passes.
Sprint Review is not the only way to get feedback. Teams should get feedback from users and stakeholders as early as possible. The ONES Desk quickly collects, tracks, manages and resolves customer feedback, helping teams improve product features, address user needs, and constantly learn from events.
The ONES Desk helps companies quickly respond to customer feedback
In the era of continuous delivery, ONES provides excellent agile RESEARCH and development practices for large and mid-size teams, creating an efficient collaboration environment between multiple roles in the research and development process, helping large and mid-size companies quickly and reliably iterate versions and deliver value continuously. To learn more about THE ONES solution, please visit the official website ones.ai for a free trial.