The Sprint retrospective meeting is time-boxed to 3 hours.
It is attended only by the Team, the ScrumMaster, and the Product Owner. The Product Owner is optional.
Start the meeting by having all Team members answer two questions:
What went well during the last Sprint?
What could be improved in the next Sprint?
The ScrumMaster writes down the Team ‚ s answers in summary form.
The Team prioritizes in which order it wants to talk about the potential improvements.
The ScrumMaster is not at this meeting to provide answers, but to facilitate the Team ‚ s search for better ways for the Scrum process to work for it.
Actionable items that can be added to the next Sprint should be devised as high-priority nonfunctional Product Backlog. Retrospectives that don ‚ t result in change are sterile and frustrating.