Prepare Sprint Retrospective

App Settings - only for Jira Administrators
Collected Feedback - only visible to the defined Scrum Master via App Settings page
Give Feedback - all Team members can give their feedback on the active and the last two closed sprints

Inspiration

Every team member knows it: Badly prepared sprint retrospectives!

We both have been working in agile software projects for several years and experience sprint retrospectives without real added value.

Most of the time the Sprint Retrospectives do not add any value because the Sprint Retrospective is not well prepared by the Scrum Master or the team members do not share enough good experiences about the past Sprint.

Therefore we have created the Jira Cloud App Prepare Sprint Retrospective! The app helps the team members to share their Sprint Highlight, Sprint Pain and their general feeling about the current or past Sprint. The Scrum Master gets the overall feeling from the team to the sprint as well as the individual impersonal sprint highlights and sprint paints aggregated. So he already has a lot of suitable input for the Sprint Retrospective without much effort.

What it does

The App Prepare Sprint Retrospective collects the following information from participating team members from one Jira project per sprint: Your biggest Sprint Highlight, your biggest Sprint Pain and your overall feeling about the current or past Sprint.

The defined Scrum Master per Jira Project has the possibility to evaluate the collected Sprint Feedback per Sprint and prepare the Sprint Retrospective with this information.

How we built it

We created a Jira Cloud App as Atlassian-Connect App, the Atlaskit and React. The app is completely serverless, i.e. the app is hosted on netlify and persists all information via Properties API.

Challenges we ran into

The biggest challenges were to define the scope for the MVP and not to get lost in detail during implementation. Additionally we had to get to know React and the components of the AtlasKit.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud to have built a running and usable MVP in a few weeks, which adds value to the Scrum team within the context of Jira.

What we learned

We learned that the Atlassian ecosystem supports the developer very well. Especially the Atlassian developer community is very helpful. In addition, we learned that scoping is a critical success factor of a software project.

What's next for Prepare Sprint Retrospective

Next we would like to offer the app as beta in the Atlassian App Store and find as many early adopters as possible, who will hopefully give us a lot of feedback where we can improve or extend the app to support the preparation of future Sprint Retrospectives as much as possible.