I was speaking with a friend recently who told me that his Scrum team had not held a Sprint Retrospective for several months.
I found myself wondering: at what point does a team stop practising Scrum and merely retain some of its vocabulary?
The Sprint Retrospective is one of Scrum’s formal opportunities for feedback. Remove it and the team loses a regular opportunity to inspect and adapt how it works.
Scrum is built around such feedback loops.
The Scrum Team frequently inspects its progress, its ways of working and the Increment it is creating. At the Sprint Review, stakeholders can examine what has been produced and influence what happens next.
Yet simply holding every Scrum event is not enough. Creating an opportunity for feedback is not the same as being able to respond to it.
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