Agile at Work: Driving Productive Agile Meetings

Introduction

• Produce immediate, actionable outcomes with Agile meetings

1. Understanding Agile Meetings

• Action-oriented Agile meetings and ceremonies
• The anatomy of an Agile iteration

2. Timebox Planning

• Optimizing your iteration planning process
• Flow of meeting
• Let's plan our team capacity for this iteration
• Follow a user story through iteration planning
• Strategies to build the iteration backlog
• Addressing additional capacity and commitment
• Release vs. timebox planning

3. Team Coordination (Daily Scrum, Daily Standup, Daily Planning)

• The daily coordination meeting
• The flow of the daily coordination meeting
• Utilize a kanban board during daily coordination meetings

4. Look Ahead Planning

• Look ahead planning
• Backlog refinement strategies
• Optimizing backlog prioritization
• Prioritizing the product backlog

5. Are the Backlog Items Ready? (Whole Team Backlog Refinement)

• Backlog refinement or backlog grooming
• Activities in the team backlog refinement

6. Demonstrating Our Outcomes

• Fast feedback and validation via the Iteration review meeting
• Outcomes of the iteration review
• Effective iteration planning with kanban boards
• Collaborating on backlog refinement

7. Retrospectives with Actionable Improvements

• Retrospectives for continuous improvement
• Generate actionable changes in retrospectives
• Conducting iteration retrospectives

Conclusion

• Transform your meeting culture