Sprint Review

AKA The Showcase

The Sprint Review presents the solutions delivered in the iteration to the Product Owner and invited SMEs to confirm that they do indeed meet the requirements and are acceptable, (can be called "done".)

Attendees

Process

At the Sprint Review the facilitator, (often the Scrum Master, but many teams will rotate this position,) or one of the team responsible for delivering the story being reviewed will revisit the story card, with the Product Owner and SMEs, paying particular attention to the acceptance criteria defined.

With the story and its acceptance criteria clearly articulated, the team present the completed solution to the Product Owner and SMEs seeking their acceptance that the delivered solution meets the acceptance criteria requested.

Unless the story somehow fails to meet some aspect of the acceptance criteria, the Product Owner really should accept it.  If there is any element of the delivvery that does not meet the acceptance criteria, then the story can still be accepted, (if the failing is inconsequencial,) but only the Product Owner can determine this.  If the story is not accepted, then it may need to be taken out of the sprint and returned to the backlog.

The reviewed story is discussed and any impacts on the backlog are applied, (sometimes it is only when the Product Owner sees the final solution that they realise an element was missing or miscommunicated in the original story, this should not equate to the delivery failing, but instead can become a new story in the backlog to make whatever adjustments arise.)

Outcome

The delivered stories are accepted and final acceptance testing and release planning can occur.  Failed stories are returned to the freshly re-ordered backlog in readiness for the next sprint.