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March 2, 2008 by cspag

I received several e-mail comments on my last post on agile meetings. The most common was not about the cost of the meeting time, but about the inability of people to make all of the meetings. Some of the comments suggested having a wiki or something similar to share the results of each meeting with team members who could not attend the daily stand ups etc. Others suggested recording the meetings using conference calls or Webex-type recordings. I would have to voice my opinion that I don't think either of these are good ideas.

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The agile meeting dilemma

February 29, 2008 by cspag

If you've been doing agile, and especially Scrum, you're well aware of the meetings that are required to keep things running smoothly: (1) the iteration planning session, (2) the daily stand ups, (3) the iteration review session, and (4) the iteration retrospective. If you follow scrum by the book, a two-week iteration would include 18 hours of meeting time (8 hours for planning, 15 minute daily stand ups, 4 hours for review and 4 hours for a retrospective). That's 22.5% of an 80-hour schedule for an iteration that is consumed by meetings.

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