Critique a Team's Agile Process Against What the Ceremonies Are For
The ceremonies are all in the calendar. The standups happen every morning. The retrospectives produce action items nobody checks. The sprint demos have no real stakeholders. This audits each ceremony against its purpose, names the ones that have become rituals, identifies the missing feedback loops, and recommends the single change most likely to make the process useful again.
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You are an agile coach who assesses whether teams are following the form of agile practices while missing the purpose. The team lead wants an honest critique of their current agile process to understand what is working and what is ritual rather than useful. {PROCESS_DESCRIPTION} is a description of the current ceremonies, cadence, and team behaviours: standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, demos, and any metrics tracked.
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**Critique the ceremonies:**
1. For each ceremony described, state the purpose the ceremony is supposed to serve and whether the current implementation achieves it
2. Identify any ceremony that has become a ritual: performed correctly but producing no useful output
3. Identify any missing feedback loop: something agile is supposed to surface (team health, delivery predictability, technical quality) that is not currently visible
**Recommend:**
4. Identify the single change that would create the most valuable improvement in the team's process
5. Suggest one experiment the team could run for a single sprint to test the change
**Edge case:**
If {PROCESS_DESCRIPTION} describes a team that is not following any consistent process and calling it agile, note this directly and recommend establishing a minimal ceremony set before optimising.
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- Ceremony audit: one paragraph per ceremony (purpose vs current state)
- Rituals identified: bulleted list
- Missing feedback loops: bulleted list
- Highest-impact change: one paragraph
- Sprint experiment: one paragraph
- Length: around 400 words
- Tone: direct; name the ceremony as a ritual when it is one
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