Sprint Review

What is a sprint review?

The sprint review is the meeting at the end of a sprint where the team shows stakeholders what it built. The Product Owner, leadership, and anyone with a stake in the product see the working increment and react to it. The point is to inspect what was completed and gather feedback that shapes how the backlog gets prioritised next.

It's a working session, not a formal sign-off. Stakeholders are meant to ask questions, push back, and suggest changes while the work is fresh. A stakeholder who watches the new checkout flow and says "this needs a guest option before launch" has just done exactly what the review exists for. That feedback goes straight into the backlog instead of surfacing weeks later as a complaint.

The review is not the retrospective. The review looks at the product: what got built and whether it holds up against expectations. The retrospective looks at the process: how the team worked and what to change. Run back to back, the two close one sprint and feed directly into planning the next.

Sprint reviews at Dallonses

Our reviews show real software, not slides. We demo the working increment, talk through what shipped and what didn't, and invite the client to react in the room. Surprises are cheaper here than in production, so we'd rather hear a hard question during the review than read it in a support ticket later.

The feedback we gather doesn't vanish into meeting notes. It reshapes the backlog before the next planning session, so the product keeps bending toward what the client actually needs. That tight loop is how a two-week cadence stays honest and how the work stays aimed at the right target.

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