
Review and Retrospective – Part 6
Developer Responsibility
So what part do developers have in the sprint review meeting? It would make sense for developers’ work to be done before the sprint review. New development is done, and features have been tested if they are to be shown at the meeting. The sprint review meeting is just demonstrating what the scrum team accomplished. The developer role offers value to the sprint review meeting, most notably, developers have the expertise to answer technical questions. They know what goes on under the surface with a product. If stakeholders have questions that other roles cannot answer, developers should know the details.
Along with explaining details, developers can assuage concerns. If stakeholders are worried about vulnerabilities, developers can explain what security measure is in place to prevent them. If concerns are impossible or unlikely to happen, developers can elaborate on why. On the occasion that stakeholders do bring up valid concerns, developers have the opportunity to explain how it will be addressed moving forward.
Developer Benefit
The biggest benefit that developers stand to gain from the sprint review meeting is first-hand exposure to stakeholders. This is especially true with accepting or rejecting deliverables. One of the biggest problems with traditional development is how feedback gets filtered through different people. Customers respond to marketing employees, who send this information down the pipe to developers. By the time developers hear the information, it may have lost the majority of its original meaning. This watered down summary is rarely helpful to developers. How can they make productive changes when they don’t really know what the customers wanted?
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Master of Agile – Agile Scrum Tester With 59 Seconds Agile (Video Training Course)
What is this course?
This ‘Master of Agile – Agile Scrum Tester With 59 Seconds Agile (Video Training Course)’ provides an in-depth understanding of the Agile Scrum Tester roles and responsibilities
You will explore the Agile Scrum project life-cycle, including how an Agile User Story is created, to how we know when it is ‘done’
This course is aimed at those with or without prior knowledge and experience of the Agile values and principles
During this course you will learn the tools needed to succeed as an Agile Scrum Tester
What will you learn?
You will gain an in-depth understanding of the Agile Scrum Tester roles and responsibilities, and you will be able to
- Fully understand the role of the Agile Scrum Tester
- Understand the roles involved in an Agile project
- Create an effective Product Backlog
- Effectively participate in Scrum Meetings such as the Daily Stand-up, Sprint Review and Retrospective
- Identify the roles involves in the Scrum Team
- Fully understand the role of the Agile Scrum Developer
- Understand the roles involved in an Agile project
- Create an effective Product Backlog
- Effectively participate in Scrum Meetings such as the Daily Stand-up, Sprint Review and Retrospective
- Identify the roles involves in the Scrum Team

What topics are covered within this course
You will cover the following topics during this course:
- An Introduction to Agile Project Management (Tester)
- The 12 Agile Principles (Tester)
- Introduction to Scrum (Tester)
- Scrum Projects (Tester)
- Scrum Project Roles (Tester)
- Quality in Agile (Tester)
- Acceptance Criteria and the Prioritised Product Backlog (Tester)
- Quality Management in Scrum (Tester)
- Epics and Personas (Tester)
- Planning in Scrum (Tester)
- Scrum Boards (Tester)
- User Stories (Tester)
- The Daily Scrum (Tester)
- The Product Backlog (Tester)
- Review and Retrospective (Tester)
- Validating a Sprint (Tester)
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