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Yeah, these are all common dysfunctions in teams getting started with Agile. You see these a lot in cargo-cult style adoptions. They understand that they need to do these practices…

I have seem teams use end of day stand-ups. The problem with those is that they tend to devolve into status updates pretty quickly. Team members report on what they did that day, b…

Since you are a manager, I might suggest that the Agile and Scrum the daily stand-up isn't for you. While I appreciate your need to know what's going on with the team, in Agile and…

The daily stand-up as a status meeting is a common anti-pattern and one I often have to coach teams out of. While yes, you may be able to derive status from a daily stand-up meetin…

In Scrum that's where the Scrum Master comes in. It's their job to facilitate the meeting to ensure that those conversations are continued after the meeting. A good team will often…

Yahoo! caused an uproar on the Internet recently, when a memo leaked revealing that they were planning on ending all existing work-from-home arrangements by June of this year.

With Lean Startup Machine returning to Toronto October 19-21, I thought I’d write up a few posts to give people an overview of some of the not so obvious things you can expect from…

Are you all working on different projects/features? That's usually a symptom of teams that aren't really teams. They sit together, but work in completely different worlds and do no…

I would suggest in that case, that you have a daily status meeting and not a daily stand-up then. It also sounds like you may not have a team either. A group of people sitting toge…

Remember, it's more important to build the right thing than it is to build lots of stuff. It's better to have the daily stand-up, interrupt your productivity a little bit and disco…

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That would certainly be something to bring up with your team if you do regular retrospectives. The purpose of standing is to keep the meeting short and focused. Can you think of al…

As I mentioned in another comment, they likely forgot the purpose of the daily stand-up, which is to have everyone be on the same page everyday. If they're doing that without a dai…

"If it works for them then they're doing "Agile" perfectly." is a very dangerous statement. By that logic than doing anything is doing Agile and we know this is not true. If it wer…

I would have thought it would work out better if you took Friday off. That way you don't have to deal with a stand-up over the telephone. Stand-ups over the phone are often extreme…

let’s fast-forward a little bit from our last conversation. Let’s say you’ve been applying everything you’ve learned about Agile for the last while and are having great success wit…

Many organizations put off an Agile transformation until they’ve evaluated and found the right Agile or Scrum tool that they believe will solve all their problems.