Sprint Retrospectives That Don't Waste Time: Data-Driven Framework
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The average engineering retro runs 60 minutes, produces five sticky notes, and ships zero action items into the next sprint. The Scrum Alliance's 2023 practitioner survey put "retros feel performative" as the #1 complaint from senior engineers. That's not a meeting problem. It's a measurement problem. Teams debate feelings because nobody pulled the data before the call.
This article gives you a 30-minute retrospective that opens with numbers, ends with named owners, and works on any team between 5 and 25 engineers.