• Explaining the Product Backlog items that have been completed during the sprint and the ones that have not been completed
• Problems faced by the team during last print and the resolution measures are discussed by the team
• Demonstration of the work done by the team and answering any questions on that particular increment
• Discussion on next steps providing valuable input to Sprint Planning of the subsequent Sprint
• Review of the timeline, budget, potential capabilities, and marketplace for the next anticipated release of the product increment
• Finally, an update on the Product Backlog for the next Sprint Increment
Sprint Retrospective
This is the next event which occurs after the Sprint Review and prior to the next Sprint Planning. Duration of this is usually one hour meeting for two-week sprints and three hour meeting for one month Sprints.
Sprint Retrospective focuses on:
• Combining the learnings from the last Sprint (with regards to people, relationships, process, and tools).
• Identifying the deliverables that went well and potential improvements
• Creating a plan for implementing improvements to increase product quality in future sprints.
SCRUM – Benefits
Scrum ensures continuous communication and feedback approach among the customer, team members, and relevant stakeholders. Its approach of doing everything under agreed timelines and regular feedback from the product owner ensures that there is a working product available all the time. Scrum also provides various other benefits to the different roles which are described below:
Benefits to Customer
The duration of sprints is short and user stories are taken up at every sprint planning as per priority. It ensures that the features required by the customer immediately are included at every sprint delivery. Also, if there is any change request raised by the customer, it will be taken up in the ongoing sprint, or included in the following sprint. Thus, the development team promptly responds to the customer’s requirements.
Benefits to Organization
Organization can reduce overhead and rework by focusing on the effort required for development of the prioritized user stories. Customer satisfaction, customer retention and customer references will be possible due to the specific benefits of scrum to customer and increased efficiency of the development team hence, increasing the market potential of the organization.
Benefits to Product Managers
Product manager can easily ensure that the work is aligned to customer n