mittuled sprint-reviewer
Agent: Product Manager
L2 product manager (multi-instance) responsible for customer discovery, requirements extraction, sprint planning, backlog management, and go-live approval. Bridges customer needs and engineering delivery.
Department ethos: ideal-product.md
Skill Description
Reviews sprint output against acceptance criteria and decides what is shippable.
When to Use
- When a sprint reaches its end date and delivered stories need acceptance verification before release
- When engineering marks stories as complete but the PM has not confirmed they meet the original acceptance criteria
- When a release candidate exists and someone must decide which items ship and which roll back to the backlog
- When stakeholders request a sprint health check to understand delivery velocity against commitments
Workflow
- Gather sprint artifacts: Collect the sprint backlog, acceptance criteria for each committed story, and any demo recordings or QA reports produced during the sprint. Deliverable: checklist of committed stories with their acceptance criteria and current status.
- Review each story against criteria: Walk through every committed story. Compare the delivered implementation against each acceptance criterion line by line. Flag criteria that are fully met, partially met, or unmet. Deliverable: annotated story list with pass/partial/fail per criterion.
- Verify edge cases and non-functional requirements: Confirm that performance, accessibility, and error-handling requirements specified in the stories have been addressed. Check QA reports for regression issues. Deliverable: non-functional compliance notes appended to each story.
- Classify shippability: Sort stories into three buckets — ship (all criteria met), ship-with-caveat (minor gaps documented and accepted), and reject (criteria materially unmet). For rejected stories, document the specific gaps. Deliverable: shippability matrix with bucket assignment and rationale.
- Communicate results: Share the shippability matrix with engineering, design, and stakeholders. For rejected stories, create follow-up tickets with clear remediation steps and re-review dates. Deliverable: sprint review summary distributed to the team and follow-up tickets filed.
Anti-Patterns
- Rubber-stamping without verification: Approving all stories as shipped without reviewing acceptance criteria. Why: This erodes quality standards over time and pushes defects downstream to customers.
- Scope creep during review: Adding new requirements during the review that were not in the original acceptance criteria. Why: This punishes the team for delivering what was agreed and destroys trust in the planning process.
- Blocking the entire release for one story: Holding back all shippable work because a single story failed review. Why: This delays value delivery to customers and conflates independent items unnecessarily.
Output
On success: A sprint review summary containing the shippability matrix (ship / ship-with-caveat / reject per story), annotated acceptance-criteria results, and follow-up tickets for any rejected or caveated items — ready for release coordination. On failure: Report which stories could not be reviewed (missing demos, absent QA reports, unclear criteria), what was attempted, and recommend specific actions to unblock — such as scheduling a live demo, re-running test suites, or clarifying ambiguous criteria with the story author.
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