Dealing with the "too many meetings" problem
Do you or your team feel meeting fatigued when using Scrum?
Nearly every team that I have introduced Scrum to has complained at some point about the duration of meetings in Scrum. I get comments like
“Scrum has far too many meetings”
“What? A four-hour planning meeting for a two-week sprint!”
“We have so many meetings here, and now you are killing us with more meetings”.
“I cannot have my team spend so many hours in meetings”.
“I am too busy”.
“&(#* off, this is &$%# @#!&”
Let us inspect
Let’s step back, get the facts, and inspect what is happening; you know that Scrum empirical thing😉?
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