How do you share sprint review and retrospective insights with your team?

Sprint Retrospectives should be done every Sprint with the Scrum team (without stakeholders). It’s the perfect opportunity to inspect and adapt. In 2 weekly-sprints you can also address certain topics sometimes like looking into Scrum Values, teambuilding, extending your Definition of Done etc. That way it’s more variety and keeps making sense. Also comments from stakeholders during the Sprint Review can be discussed. I like that the latest Scrum Guide removed the mandatory actions points. I see often that discussing is valuable and enough to go on. And if there are action points, you really have to follow up on them!

There should be dedicated meetings with the Scrum Team and the concerned stakeholders for the Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective. If your Sprint is set between 2 to 4 weeks, the Sprint Review can happened after each sprint and usually we gave the Sprint Retrospective every 2 releases as this gives the team to work on the things that were discussed to improve and also if there is a modification of pipeline that it may take some time to workout all the details of it wile implementing. Also the everyone should keep in mind these meetings are there to help the team be more efficient and not a way to blame others shortcomings but to come together as one and discuss how can we improve as a team.

After every Retrospective and Review, we document it and share it on common SharePoint/ confluence page. This helps us to be transparent and learn from our past mistakes and get motivated by good work.

Nope - Using a consistent format and structure is terrible advice. Instead, keep focus on the intended outcomes, but make sure to mix it up when it comes to delivering those outcomes.

I agree with Mike Lyon. If there is a structure, then people may get hung up maintaining the structure losing sight of the purpose.

With the availability of collaborative tools and applications, sharing the Sprint Review and Retrospective insights is easier than ever. However, to ensure that we follow through on these insights a quick and easy way is to maintain them as future requirements and add them to the backlog either as functional or non functional requirements. This would ensure that all and any improvements and feedback are tagged to the value of the product being delivered.

The self-management aspect of the agile team plays a big part here. The team needs to make an effort, commit, to incorporate the insights.

The team needs to find what work's for the team. Yes, get information and insights from others. But, try, adjust, toss, repeat until hitting on what is best for the team. There is no it-must-be-done-this-way.

Well, overall, I found this to be confusing. Since the team's are responsible for the sprint review and retro, there is no need for sharing sprint review and retrospective insights. In fact, I would argue, if you find yourselves sharing sprint review and retrospective insights, you have other issues.

Again, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective are two very different, separate events. They have different subject matter, different purposes, different participants and different results. Do not conflate them in one article or in practice.

What is going in this article. Maybe a good example of AI generated content. The sprint review is for the team to share with the stakeholders. Insights, goals and feedback should be happening along the way and not in this meeting. The retrospective is for the team to improve their Way of Working and hopeful has an improvement backlog that gets prioritized and implemented regularly in an upcoming Sprint.

I do not see value in sharing sprint retrospective insights with stakeholders outside the team. I see value in sharing with other agile teams, though. Other teams can learn from one's team experience and vice versa.