Category: Meetings

Daily Scrum Meeting
Agile, Communication, Meetings, Scrum

Daily Standup Best Practices: Mastering the Art of Efficient Collaboration

In the fast-paced world of agile development, daily standup meetings, also known as daily scrum meetings, have become a cornerstone of team communication and productivity. But while these meetings are essential, they’re often misused or misunderstood, leading to wasted time and frustration. How can you ensure your team’s standups are effective, engaging, and, most importantly, valuable? Drawing on industry insights and proven strategies, this blog will explore best practices for daily standup meetings, helping you transform them into a powerful tool for team alignment and problem-solving.… [ Read the rest...]
Meetings, Scrum

How to Turn the Floor Over to the Next Person on Daily Scrum Meeting

If you use Scrum methodology on your projects, you definitely know how the Daily Scrum Meeting goes. If not, here is a quick walk-thru. People take their turns and provide their status updates one at a time. The status is short but informative, and its purpose is to answer three main questions: “What I did yesterday”, “What I’m going to do today”, “What impediments or blockers I`m having at the moment”.… [ Read the rest...]
Management, Meetings

Why It Is Important To Conduct Project Exit Interview

Exit interview is a common practice in companies where HR function is developed on a good level. In a nutshell, exit interview is a talk between a resigning employee and a company representative (HR manager, line manager, director). This talk if done properly can reveal a lot of useful information for the management of the company. I first heard about exit interviews when I was resigning from one of my previous companies.… [ Read the rest...]
Meetings, Remote Teams

10 Golden Rules of Productive Remote Meeting

Today project teams distributed all over the globe are becoming more and more widespread. Obviously, project management practices are also evolving in response to these changes. Let’s take meetings as an example of the most powerful project management means. Hosting a productive and efficient meeting within a co-located team has been always a challenge that requires a set of specific skills and experience.… [ Read the rest...]
Meetings, Teambuilding

5 questions to ask your teammates at your first one-on-one meeting

One of the first things you should do taking over a new project is definitely getting acquainted with your team. As usual a new project manager is introduced to a new team officially by his predecessor or manager, but I’m talking about something different here. I mean that it makes perfect sense to meet with each team member in person. Such one-on-one meetings are the most useful project manager’s instruments.… [ Read the rest...]
Checklists, Meetings, Scrum, Soft Skills

10 arguments why daily scrum meeting is important (infographic)

It happens that engineers call into question the importance of daily scrum meeting, especially those ones who have a lack of experience of working in a team. Their most common argument against this meeting is that it distracts them from the actual work, and it is just a waste of time. If you as a project manager faces this issue, you should find the right words and arguments to explain your team mates the usefulness of a daily scrum meeting and to persuade them not only to attend it but also to be an active participant at it.… [ Read the rest...]
Lessons Learned
Meetings

Lessons Learned: Does It Really Work in Projects?

After completion of each project it is recommended to conduct a lessons learned session with a team. But many people including some project managers believe that lessons learned is just yet another meeting and a waste of time. Let`s figure out if it’s true or not. What is Lessons Learned Session and How It Differs from Retrospective Meeting First, let’s try to understand what  actually a lessons learned meeting is and what’s the difference between it and a well-known in Scrum retrospective meeting.… [ Read the rest...]