IIT Academy: Agile. You run standup, sure. But is it effective? Learn how to create energising, valuable, impediment removing daily interactions with your team. Achieve clarity in your approach with this toolkit. Designed for anyone who does stand ups, no matter how mature, who want to find ways to make their stand up high-performing.

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Pro tips for an effective standup

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Contents
• Role of standup in scrum
• Effective vs. Not-effective
• Video exercise - Chet Wrong
• Discuss - Chet Wrong
• Video exercise - Sally Ellata
• Discuss - Sally Ellata
• What does a good standup look like?
• Protips for a Effective Standup

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Role of standup in Scrum
• Product Owner Role
• Scrum Master Role
• Team Role
• Products/Deliverables - burn down chart, stories
• Equipment - Board
• Context in wider Process
• End goal of standup

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Effective vs. Not Effective
People actually want to standup
Team gets focus
Team gets clarity
Team gets energised

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Contents
• Role of standup in scrum
• Effective vs. Not-effective
• Video exercise - Chet Wrong
• Discuss - Chet Wrong
• Video exercise - Sally Ellata
• Discuss - Sally Ellata
• What does a good standup look like?
• Protips for a Effective Standup

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Video - Chet Wrong

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What impediments did you see?

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Some of the impediments
1.Standing up
2. Consistent time and place
3. Token
4. One speaker at a time
5. Short and sharp (15 minutes)

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Video - Sally Elatta

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What impediments did you see?

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Some of the impediments
1.“Updates”
2. Sitdowns
3. Side conversations
4. On the phone
5. “Tasks”
6. Unfinished “tasks”
7. Body language
8. No concern for architecture
9. Talking at the scrum master
10. Disempowered Product Owner
11. Another team member came
late

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Contents
• Role of standup in scrum
• Effective vs. Not-effective
• Video exercise - Chet Wrong
• Discuss - Chet Wrong
• Video exercise - Sally Ellata
• Discuss - Sally Ellata
• What does a good standup look like?
• Protips for a Effective Standup

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What does a good one look like?
Focus on the baton
Improvement is enabled
Accountability for delivery
Breaks into problem solving
team afterwards

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Team Norms
A standup is a “habit”. A good set
of habits helps to create a high
performing team. Here’s an
example:
Norm Bad Good

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Same place &
time
Late or non-
attendance
Prompt/early to
standup (no chasing)
Attentive
behaviour
People not
listening
Effective
communication
Everybody
stands
Poor body
language
Pressure on timely
standup (not a short
standup)
No electronics
People “screen
out”
Minds and bodies
both in room together
Norm Bad Good

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Pass the token
“Not my turn, so
not listening”
Active listening
User Stories
attend
“I only talk about
my things”
Focus on the baton,
not the runners
Each story is a
victory
No pressure to
push
Push for greater
delivery, accountability
for velocity
Impediment
board
No visibility of
dysfunctions
Proactive raising of
impediments, and
proactive fixing
Norm Bad Good

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Team owns the
board
Working on scope not on
board; or scope on board
not worked on
The board is real-
time visibility
Higher level of
detail
Standup is not
an update
Succinct, clear
short stand ups
16th minute
Try for shortest possible
standup; or a standup
with the wrong level of
detail
Breakout
conversations occur
after standup
Prepare before
standup
No clarity
Clarity on
stories
Norm Bad Good

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Thank you!