Innovation

How innovative would you say you are at work? How innovative is your team? How innovative is your organisation? Let’s first make sure we’re on the same page. What do I mean by innovation? Innovation as in doing things differently, in a way it hasn’t been done before. Thinking critically and coming up with new … Read more

Doing a Daily Stand-up as a non-development team

The daily stand-up is arguably the most successful export of the agile philosophy. It has become a feature of many delivery teams—even non-agile, non-development teams.
In these teams it is mostly used as a morning catch-up session to align team members and share updates related to ongoing work.

As such it is different from the Daily Scrum ceremony which is specific to teams using the Scrum framework. Whilst the Daily Scrum is a meeting for a Scrum development team only, a daily stand-up, as co-opted by non-agile non development teams, encompasses a wider group of participants and often include discussions beyond the famous three questions.

Some teams have experimented with and adopted practices that make their stand-ups useful, efficient and enjoyable. Whilst others perform the meeting in a way that makes it tedious and uninspiring.

Here are some practices to experiment with when performing a daily stand-up as a non-agile, non-development team.

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Car Crash Calendars

The age of virtual meetings have turned most people’s calendars into a car crash. People were busy pre-Covid but post-Covid busyness is more due to the prevalence of remote work and heavy reliance on virtual meetings to get work done. It’s pretty normal now for calendars to be booked flat out from 8am to 6pm … Read more