Synopsis

The Scrum Master facilitates the Sprint Retrospective with the team and captures information what worked and what didn't work well in the Sprint and how can the team improve going forward. The Team plans ways to increase product quality by adapting the definition of “Done” as appropriate.

Value 

The Sprint Retrospective is the foundation for continuous improvement. It focuses on improvements with regards to people, relationships, process, and tools.

Prepare

The Scrum Master sends out meeting invitations.

Conduct

The Scrum Master facilitates the meeting, ensuring that it stays within the allocated time, and participates as a peer.

1. Introduction

The Scrum Master explains the purpose of the Sprint Retrospective.

2. Discuss what worked well

Optionally record what worked well for future reference.

3. Discuss what didn't work well, and how we can improve

Optionally record what did not work well for future reference.

4. Create tasks for future improvements 

In order to track the improvements that the team decides to do, you can create tasks, assign them to owners and mark as completed when done.

Follow-up

The Scrum Master performs the following housekeeping steps.

1. Standard meeting follow-up items

This includes creating work items from meeting notes, soliciting feedback from absent members, resolving any work item associated with the meeting, and creating snapshots of meeting-related work products.

2. Advance the current Sprint

In addition to standard meeting followup items the Scrum Master updates the project environment to reflect that the current Sprint is over, and starts a new Sprint.