Top 5 ways to make scrum meetings productive
Daily Stand-up Meeting- Are team members committed to the goal of the Sprint ? This should be verified by showing the taskboard to team possibly a Kanban board and let the team team provide their opinion on where they stand. Additionally, show them the burndown chart trend on the daily basis in the meeting, if the chart is deviating from ideal graph. Sprint Planning Meeting 2. Are the team members doing some pre-planning and preparing themselves for the planning meeting. This should be verified by checking that team is very sure about the user stories and they know what stories to be delivered and how. Sprint Refinement/Grooming Meeting 3. Are the user stories are prepared well prior to this meeting? Are the user stories understood to PO before explaining to team? This can be verified by ensuring that sizing of the stories are happening for the planned stories for this meeting. Sprint Review Meeting 4. Are the team well prepared to deliv