title: Sprint 42 retrospective project: engineering-team-template tags:

• retro
• sprint-42
• process date: 2026-04-07

Sprint 42 retrospective

Sprint: 42 | Facilitator: EM | Participants: Backend, frontend, design, PM

What went well

• API contract finalized before mid-sprint; fewer integration thrash sessions.
• On-call load was light; no pages during business hours.
• Design QA caught contrast issues early; fixed before release branch.

What did not go well

• Two stories slipped due to ambiguous acceptance criteria on permissions edge cases.
• Staging data drift caused a false green integration test; wasted half a day.

Data & actions

Delivered 18 / 22 points; four rolled to sprint 43 with reasons on the board. Actions: PM ships auth AC template; Platform runs nightly staging refresh (green 5/5 nights); Tech lead caps spikes at one day with a written outcome. Thanks Alex for flaky-test pairing.

Next retro focus

Definition of ready metrics and WIP limits on the review queue.