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title: Sprint 24 retrospective
date: 2026-06-26
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# Sprint 24 Retrospective

**Sprint:** 24 (15–26 June 2026) · **Facilitator:** Tom Brennan · **Present:** 6 of 7

## What went well
- The billing soak test caught the refund edge case *before* customers did.
- Pairing on the connection-pool change spread the context across three people
  instead of one.
- We finished the sprint without a single weekend deploy.

## What did not
- Two stories carried over because the design was still moving on day four.
- The staging environment was down for most of Tuesday and nobody owned fixing it.
- Standup routinely ran to 25 minutes.

## What we are changing
| Change | Owner | By |
| :----- | :---- | :- |
| No story enters a sprint without a signed-off design | Dana | Sprint 25 planning |
| Rotate a named "environment owner" each sprint | Tom | Sprint 25 |
| Hard-stop standup at 10 minutes; park the rest | Whole team | Immediately |

## Still open
- Do we split the platform board from the product board? Revisit at Sprint 26.

> Kept from last retro: the "no story without a design" rule failed once this
> sprint. If it fails again in Sprint 25, we stop treating it as a rule and find
> out what is actually blocking it.