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Meetings – how to optimize the number of attendees in a meeting for middle management




In the organization that I work in, there is a culture of having meetings on the drop of a hat for discussion of issues. This is normally justified for the following reasons: – Meetings avoid long winded email discussions where the point made by a person could be misconstrued or not understood properly. – Meetings [...]



Make sure that you plan some of the logistics around your Scrum implementation – else you can get tripped up




People worry a lot about their Scrum implementation, in terms of ensuring that their people have got the required training, that some of the obvious pain points have been resolved, and in some cases, that a Scrum coach has been put in place. Over a period of time, getting hold of some of the issues [...]



Scrum – When the Product Owner finds it difficult to attend the meetings (Sprint Planning, Retrospective, Demo, and Daily Scrum) (contd..)




In the previous post, I had written about the Product Owner, and the meetings that are expected for this role (Product Owner and Scrum Meetings – Part 1). We talked about the Sprint Planning Meeting, the Sprint Retrospective, and the Sprint Demo; it seems quite clear that you need the Product Owner to attend these [...]



Scrum – When the Product Owner finds it difficult to attend the meetings (Sprint Planning, Retrospective, Demo, and Daily Scrum)




This subject is probably one of the most debated and disputed topics in the entire discussion about Scrum. How many meetings should the Product Owner attend ? If you look at Scrum, there are these set of meetings: – Sprint Planning: In this meeting (or rather, extended meeting), the Product Owner explains the various User [...]