Anyone who belongs from the world of software development and has ever used any modification of Agile methodology would not need the introduction of a stand-up meeting. Over the last 12 years, Agile has achieved an enormous amount of popularity. However, it is still needed to have some base to start from.
Agile Approach
Agile software development Process: stand-up meetings in a Jnext way
Let’s say, you are having a quick team meeting, usually standing, so, because of the physical inconvenience you would probably prefer to be short on your updates. By the way, here I am not going to focus on the main benefits of stand-ups, instead, I would rather share an experience that how Jnext makes their stand-ups effective and more enjoyable. Yes, it’s a practice that we’ve had at JNext Services over the years.
Stand up meeting, you can also address it as a recurrent meeting with the common purpose of the team work on the same goal. The purpose is
- Getting all members on the same Page
- Be updated about each of the team member’s plans, progress, questions and things that block the progress
- Answer their current questions and efficiently help them to prevent blockers
Jnext Stand-Up Meeting Rules:
We Strictly follow the set of guidelines listed below, Give Your Update In A Way, You Would Like To Hear Others Following the goal of the stand-up meeting, each of our team member is required to serve a common goal like what are the current plans,each of the team members has the same focus,issues affecting individual development, and queries. So, we make sure to follow the principle “give your update in a specific way that you would like to hear others, as it helps all the team members to understand the issue.
Add A Sense Of Recurrence
We ensure to add a sense of recurrence in each of our team members, it does not matter whether it is daily, weekly or bi-weekly. For example, if the team is allocated full-time, then we make sure to have an efficient stand-ups as the daily ones, as the work progress changes as per the day of work. Whereas on the contrary, if the progress over time does not seem satisfactory, then the team should go for weekly stand-ups. So we make sure that the recurrence is fulfilling the simple principle of keeping an eye on the same direction and steady progress of its work.
Be On Time
We Strictly follow the set of guidelines listed below, Give Your Update In A Way, You Would Like To Hear Others Following the goal of the stand-up meeting, each of our team member is required to serve a common goal like what are the current plans, each of the team members has the same focus, issues affecting individual development, and queries. So, we make sure to follow the principle “give your update in a specific way that you would like to hear others, as it helps all the team members to understand the issue.
It Is Reasonable To Remain Short
The Jnext’s individual team participates in the daily stand up meeting in a reasonably short period of time. As the organization as well as the client cannot afford to take a significant amount of time. Generally, for the each department, we take 20 to 30 minutes of time period, 3-4 minutes per member’s update including the 10 minute question’s session. We tell each of the members to talk straight to the point and be reasonably short.
Do Not Jump Into Every Single Detail
We make sure that each of the team member is informative yet reasonably short. Jumping into every specific detail would take a lot of stand-up’s time. So, if any, of the team member feels an urge to discuss on any specific topic with the specific participants, then we arrange a separate discussion…
Ensure, All The Team Members Are Included
Following the stand-up’s principle, we make sure that each of the team member is present in stand-up; so, he/she can have a clear image of current state and team member’s progress.
We follow the listed below rules to keep our stand-ups as efficient as possible.
Questions Session
- Our stand-up lead goes with the personal updates right from top to bottom along with the blockers and reading questions as well as mentioning to the team members answer/discussion
- If any of the team member’s discussion goes long, lead should propose to organize a separate meeting
During the session if there is no specific discussion, like answering/questions, then each participant proceeds with the personal update. However, we make sure to follow the question’s answers after the personal updates.
Conclusion
JNext Services is a global leader in Agile and Lean product management. Stand-up meeting is a useful and efficient tool, when it comes to Agile development practices. We have become the master of this art through daily practicing Agile methodology. We have helped numbers of big entrepreneurs to make their way to success.
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