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How To Make The Most Of Your Scrum Meetings
One cannot emphasize enough the need for regular
scrum meetings. These daily meetings are 15-20
minutes in length on an average and the aim of
such programs is to keep the members of the
project on course and informed. Successful scrum
project management involves focus on team
collaboration and quick review of status and
successful communication of different
challenges. In order to make the most of your
scrum meetings it is necessary to consider these
points. A proper setup One of the first
prerequisites of a successful agile scrum meeting
is the presence of proper setup for the same.
Ideally, the meeting should be short. Any more
than 15 to 20 minutes and you will find a
concentration of members wavering and this in
turn brings down the success levels
substantially. The best time for conducting such
meetings is the mornings, when the work and
stress of the day has not taken its toll yet on
the participants. Restrict the level of comfort
Interestingly enough, the comfort level for the
participant at a meeting, increases the chances
of success. Therefore, if you can, conduct the
meeting with everybody standing up instead of
sitting down. Once everybody sits down, there is
a propensity to relax and interact with each
other for no reason, making the occasion less
formal. You cannot afford to do this in a meeting
of such short durations.
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• Use visual aids
• Successful scrum agile project
  management is very much possible when you use
  visual aids to reinforce the information being
  shared during the meeting. It should include
  current task list, presence of burn down charts
  that depict total remaining hours in the current
  sprint, and the development time cycles. This
  clarifies the situation for the members and help
  them to know about the meeting in a clear manner.
• Ensure participation
• You want to ensure the success of your scrum
  meeting and make sure that every member remains
  present on a daily basis. This is true for
  general members as well as team facilitator,
  product manager, Scrum Master, and product owner.
  It is important to remember that when it comes to
  a scrum meeting there is no clear-cut leader and
  everyone present has an equal voice to share. The
  function of the Scrum Master is to set up the
  meeting and members may ask questions as and when
  required.
• Know about the scope
• When you are conducting scrum meetings, it is
  very important to know the goal of such
  endeavors. The aim is team synchronization with
  focus on current Sprint. The meeting discusses
  the past work of every member and the current
  project besides dealing with the related
  roadblocks. One of the aims of such meetings may
  be agile software development. While
  troubleshooting issues is all right,
  concentrating too much on problem solving may
  take away the focus from the main aim of such
  meetings. Therefore striking the correct balance
  is vital.
• Those who want to know more about scrum agile
  project management can visit http//www.inflectra.
  com/.

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Contact Informaion

• Address 8121 Georgia Ave Suite 504
• Silver Spring, MD
• 20910 , USA
• Telephone Number 1 202-558-6885
• Email sales_at_inflectra.com
• Website http//www.inflectra.com/

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