Chapter 13. Stand-Up Meeting

The Stand-Up Meeting practice is a daily meeting to provide coordination among team members. It should last no longer than 15 minutes. It is a point where a self-organizing team meets to exchange progress information about the current Iteration.

Business Value

Stand-up meetings create business value in two important ways: reducing time to market and promoting visibility. Stand-up meetings also create natural synchronization points with the customer part of team, which enables frequent customer reviews to improve product utility and quality.

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When Dave Developer joined his current project, it was his first Agile project, and he couldn’t imagine a meeting every day. He felt the previous meetings were almost ...

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