Sprint Reviews - The most important meeting in Scrum

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[@alebigna]

Hello Daria, very helpful and useful as usual. It's nice to know that at least one Company use and practices Scrum as expected... it's comforting and gives hopes that sooner or later any SM is going to have this great experience! :D Joking, but not too much. I loved the content. Thanks.

[@BaltiSean]

I LOVE the video game remote example. Talk about transparency! Great video as always. You’ve won a new subscriber. Thanks!

[@ScrumMastered]

Welcome aboard!

[@tahuonglinh921]

Hi Daria, we are having sprint reviews but they don't work out the way we wanted. We have both technical teams, marketing and CS to present the sprint outcomes, KPIs and highlights in the sprint. However, members don't seem to pay attention to other teams' presentations. Only product owners and chief product officer do. We also have a complete product demo whenever the whole feature/product is delivered, usually once a month or at anytime the PO decided. I am looking for another format or way to improve the sprint review so we can have more participation and feedback. Thank you!

[@ScrumMastered]

@tahuonglinh921 are the teams in the sprint review all working on the same product? are their deliverables connected to each other or is there some kind of dependency? You might not have the right audience in your reviews. We usually combine the reviews into one meeting when multiple scrum teams work on the same product to make sure they are all aware of what others are working on as it may impact their work too. Also, if you have Sprint Reviews, why do you have additional feature reviews? That demo should be part of your regular sprint reviews already.

[@ilkinhamid1072]

thanks a lot

[@giuliovallata]

Hi Daria! I'm working with a team that is having system DEMOs at the end of every sprint but haven't had a Sprint Review until I stepped in as a Scrum Master. Just to give you a bit of context here: The ART is imposing Sprint Reviews to be on certain times in order for stakeholders to be able to join sessions Before I joined the team was having Sprint Retro after System DEMO, than lunch and after lunch, Sprint planning. The team is struggling to understand the value of Sprint Review since they have system demo and doesn't want to repeat the same to other stakeholders. In your opinion, what arguments could I bring to the team so that they understand the value of the Sprint Review? Don't you think that the system demo on the same day as the Sprint Review would invalidate the purpose of the Review itself?

[@ScrumMastered]

Why have a demo when you have a Sprint Review? :) This is kind of the other way around. I usually review what other meetings happen that should actually be part of the Sprint Review and show it to the team. Like - you know these meetings you already have with the stakeholders? Yes, those are part of the Sprint Review. We don't need any new meetings, we just need to improve what you already have to include all of the other important topics that we would usually cover in a Sprint Review. You don't need to convince them to have another meeting, you just need to make the one they already have more valuable.

[@ahmedhassanbakir191]

I think all events in sprint have the same importance as every event establish specific goal in scrum framework so I don't agree to say that Review is the most important event

[@MenAmongTheRuins77]

yeah I'm not doing any meetings, you cant force me to do it, i will leave the job , literally waist of time

[@ScrumMastered]

@MenAmongTheRuins77, yeah, you go tell that manager of yours that he can't force you to show up to work and actually work! *facepalm* Attending meetings is part of our jobs in the corporate environment. Because we need to work with other people. For that we have to talk to them. Meeting face-to-face is the most effective way to communicate. If you don't want to do your job, yes, you probably should leave and find a job that doesn't require you to talk to people. Though, I'm not sure there is one like that. Even if you work for yourself you still must speak with customers. So... good luck, I guess.

[@MenAmongTheRuins77]

@@ScrumMastered yeah I'm fine, I'm working in a company where we actually do the job and don't waste time doing useless meetings talking about button color for 4 sprints in a row , and i do meet the clients of my own freelance gigs, all the meetings i do serve the purpose, unlike agile

[@ScrumMastered]

@MenAmongTheRuins77 so your meetings at your job are useless and the problem is... Scrum I suppose? Not your inability to have useful meetings. Got it 👍