It’s not that you must grab your spats and tails and put on a whole song and dance, but there are ways to run a scrum meeting in a way that keeps it fresh and starts the day off on the right foot. Here are a few ideas to run a better scrum meeting. Name Your Team and Give...
Scrum meetings. Done right, Scrum meetings boost team transparency, communication, and connection. They’re the heartbeat of your sprint and keep everyone aligned. But to reap these benefits, you need to know how to structure and run these meetings. What is a Scrum meeting? Scrum meetings ...
Learn how to run an effective meeting. Examine the purpose of effective meetings and discover how facilitators can set and achieve the team meeting...
The Scrum master should take care of the who, what, when, and where of the sprint planning meeting. This preparation includes deciding on the meeting’s date and time, as well as its attendees. To determine the length of your meeting, first consider the length of your sprint. Multiply the...
Who should run Scrum of Scrums? Each team would then designate one person to also attend a scrum of scrums meeting. The decision of who to send should belong to the team. Usually the person chosen should bea technical contributor on the team—a programmer, tester, database administrator, des...
At the start of the meeting, you should already have a backlog of tasks that the Product Owner has prepared in advance. During the planning meeting, they should run through the backlog of tasks one by one, so the ScrumTeam can clarify which ones they want to prioritize and commit to co...
It’s important to carve out time for the team to reflect on the project, including things that went well and areas for improvement. This is where knowing how to run a good retrospective comes into play. “Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences,...
A stand-up meeting is a short meeting commonly used by teams that run Agile or Scrum—though any team can implement this type of meeting. During stand-up meetings, team members take turns discussing three main questions: What did you accomplish yesterday?
How to Run Effective Meetings It can be hard, after years’ worth of lackluster meetings, to know what a great one looks like. According to experts, these are the keys to a well-run meeting: Invite the right number of people. Say what you will about Jeff Bezos; the Amazon founder has...
A step-by-step guide on how to drive a scrum project, prioritize and organize your backlog into sprints, run the scrum ceremonies and more, all in Jira.