Which Scrum ritual is meant to look back and improve upon the finished Sprint?

Question

Options

• ADaily Scrum.
• BSprint Retrospective.
• CSprint Review.

• A
  9% (3)
• B
  88% (30)
• C
  3% (1)

Explanation

Sprint Retrospective (B) is the Scrum ceremony explicitly designed for the team to inspect how the last Sprint went - covering people, processes, tools, and relationships - and to create a plan for improvements to enact in the next Sprint. It is the only ritual whose purpose is purely internal reflection and continuous improvement of the team's working process.

Daily Scrum (A) is a short daily synchronization meeting where developers inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and adapt the plan for the next 24 hours - it looks forward, not back.

Sprint Review (C) is also retrospective in time, but it focuses on what was built - the team and stakeholders inspect the Increment and adapt the Product Backlog, not the team's process itself.

Memory tip: Think of "Retro" as short for "retrospective" and "retrograde" - the team looks backward to move the process forward. If a question mentions improving how the team works, that's always the Retrospective; if it mentions improving what is being built, that's the Review.

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