Meetings
Standup
- Be there for your team’s standup or post your update in Slack if you can’t be
there in person.
- Being there for standup is important. Missing it should be an exception. Your team should not be surprised.
- Some teams have de-emphasized the traditional daily in-person scrum. If you are on one of those teams, you know how things are done.
- Standup updates follow conventional “agile” format: what you did yesterday, what you’re doing today, and whether you have any blockers.
- Don’t get into in-depth discussions while there are still people waiting to give their updates. If there’s something you want to discuss, call it out during your update so people can talk after the standup.
Retrospective
Engineering Retrospectives
Retro includes time for team members to express things that are relevant to the entire team, including announcements, praise, thank-yous, suggestions, concerns, and proposed changes to working agreements.
Team Retrospectives
At in-team retrospectives, teams discuss the past cycle - what went well, what could go better, as well as any of the things mentioned for Engineering Retrospectives.