Sprint Review Anti-Patterns (1) — Not Having A Sprint Review (Hands-on Agile Webinar #9)

This Hands-on Agile mini-series addresses 12 familiar Scrum sprint review anti-patterns: death by PowerPoint to side-gigs to none of the stakeholders cares to attend.

The first episode covers not having a sprint review in the first place. All Scrum events are essential for a team’s success — you cannot skip a Scrum event. Junior Scrum teams may be tempted, though, to skip the sprint review. “Reasons” for this attitude might include:(1) More time is desired to accomplish the sprint goal. That is a bit too late. The scrum team needs to re-negotiate with the product owner if they recognize mid-sprint that they might miss the sprint goal.) (2) There is “nothing to show.” (Has really nothing been DONE? My take: This is precisely the moment to have a sprint review! Besides, it is a misperception that the team can only show frontend tasks. In my experience, you can show APIs, too, even at the command line level — give it a try and be surprised.

YOUR HOST: Stefan Wolpers