Meetings & Ceremonies

A list of techniques that have proven to make meetings successful, why they work, and what is unique about them.

Not all meetings are a success. People gather with the intent of brainstorming about new developments in an organization like rolling out a product, but the meetings backfire due to deviation from the agendas, incorrect participation, or missing participants. So what is really the secret behind running a successful meeting and having everyone satisfied with the value of the time they invested in it? The article pinpoints some of the techniques used by the world's innovative companies like Google, Apple, Virgin Group, and many more to contact successful meetings that motivate everyone and create space for achieving organizational goals.

Exploring the myth that a Daily Scrum is status meeting, and how it differs from it.

Professional Scrum Trainer Stephanie Ockerman explores the myth that a Daily Scrum is a status meeting. Through her discussion, she captures several areas as to why the Daily Scrum is much more than a status meeting noting that status meetings do not encourage the development teams' empowerment to make decisions and complete ownership of how they do work. Thus Stephanie argues that they inhibit the self-organization that the daily Scrum largely promotes in a development team. Let's watch the video to find out more about how a daily Scrum differs from a status meeting.

A look at the four key components of a good stand-up meeting to understand the source of its hidden servant powers.

Organization team members often hold Stand-Up Meetings to share status reports of their work. Tristan Libersat in this article notes that Stand-Up Meetings improve a team's ability to self-organize towards achieving organizational goals. However, he adds that not all Stand-Up Meetings empower teams to self-organize. Get an in-depth explanation of Stand-Up Meetings in this text and the four key components that a successful Stand-Up Meeting must contain for teams to self-organize.

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