Risk to Ship Meetings in Agile Project

Agile metrices are very important. I want to mention here about as special meeting called Risk to Ship Meetings. This meeting is moderated by scrum master every sprint.

The scrum master presents the sprint data on how the team has done for sprint goals with respect to customer value creation, We touch base on the current risks and issues which are blocking the delivery of the release. The scrum master has a whole checklist which has to be met before we ship out a major release like a Security sign off, automation sign off , documentation sign off, accessibility sign off, 3rd party software sign offs. We look at the complete delivery and discuss the blockers with the Product owners. It is like showing the mirror to everyone where we stand. A well performing team will try to resolve the blocking issues and reach our milestone. You can call this a sprint end review meeting in Agile. But the question we ask ourselves is - What is our risk to ship the product tonight ?

It gets everyone to think, the quality gates, sprint end metrices. It is my favorite meeting and the most productive meeting one can have.