During a Sprint Retrospective, a home-robot company's app team realizes their Definition of Done never accounted for accessibility testing on the companion app, and several released features quietly fall short. What is the appropriate outcome of this Retrospective discussion?
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Short Explanation
Finding a hole in your own bar for 'done' is exactly what a Retrospective should surface. The fix isn't a quiet workaround — it's the whole team owning the gap and, if that means tightening the Definition of Done itself, doing that openly together. That's the Retrospective doing its job.
Full Explanation
The Sprint Retrospective's purpose includes inspecting how the last Sprint went with respect to the Definition of Done and planning ways to increase quality, and the Guide is explicit that the Definition of Done can evolve over time as a Scrum Team's understanding of quality matures — it is not frozen once adopted. Finding that accessibility testing was missing is precisely the kind of quality gap the Retrospective exists to catch, and the appropriate response is a team-owned improvement plan, potentially including a stronger Definition of Done, decided together rather than by one person acting alone. A Scrum Master quietly fixing this without the team misses that the Definition of Done belongs to the whole Scrum Team, not a single accountability, and bypasses the transparency the team needs to actually change behavior. Waiting on the Product Owner to unilaterally rewrite it is backwards too — while the Product Owner or organization can set a baseline standard of quality, evolving the working Definition of Done is a collaborative act by the Developers and the Scrum Team together, not a one-person edit made outside the event meant for exactly this conversation. Treating it as unchangeable contradicts the Guide directly. A concrete check: after this Retrospective, verify the Definition of Done document was actually updated and that the next Sprint's work is measured against the stronger bar, not just discussed and dropped.