What Is the Sprint Review Checklist?

Example sprint review checklist

Here is an example of a sprint review checklist featuring a basic set of items. A Scrum master will add in more relating to the sprint itself.

Preparation
☐ The software is working and has been tested
☐ Documentation is up to date

Checklist
☐ Product demonstration
☐ Close completed user stories
☐ Review and re-prioritize incomplete user stories
☐ Move incomplete stories to the next sprint or back to the product backlog
☐ Discuss and note issues and impediments and assign for resolution

The sprint review checklist complements the sprint meeting agenda which is a list of topics covered during the sprint review. 

Creating a sprint review checklist online

Online project management tools are ideal for creating and managing sprint review checklists. Scrum teams may favor paper-based ones as they huddle around a Scrum board or rely on office productivity programs such as spreadsheets, but using a platform like Wrike offers many advantages, including:

• Creating checklists within tasks
• These checklists can be accessed by all team members via mobile devices
• That specific checklist task is then associated with the relevant phase of the project and can be quickly found

In Wrike, checklists can be created within a task description. The simplest approach is to set up a task for the sprint review and add the agenda and checklist to it. 

An alternative is to use sub-tasks as checklist items. The main advantage of this approach is that they can be assigned as actions for someone to follow up on.