A cancelled review leaves the board
Seen on the live board: a card titled review: … standing in the Triage strip as unscheduled work, on nobody's own board, and nothing to say what it was for.
Cancelling a review used to hand the card back to the closing sprint when it sat in the current one — the thought being that it should not linger on the new sprint. What that left was a card with the review link broken, no progress and no week, which is exactly the shape the strip holds up as work nobody has scheduled. So it asked to be planned, under the title of a review that had been called off, while being invisible on every personal board because its dates were yesterday's.
A cancelled review is now off the board wherever its sprint had put it — which is already what happened to one outside the current sprint, so this removes a special case rather than adding one.
Unchanged, and the reason the rule stays narrow:
- a review the reviewer has already worked on (progress above 0) is never touched — that work is theirs;
- a finished review card stays as the record that the review happened.
Nothing is lost either way: the day the card stood on gives it back, and the cancellation is recorded on the original, which is where a person looks for what became of the review.