The Twice-a-Week Scrum
The daily scrum is a daily event. That statement sounds obvious—it’s the daily scrum after all—but many Scrum teams want to hold it every other day or even less frequently.
Some team members might complain that not a lot changes day-to-day and that they’d rather have their 15 minutes back. Others may feel so much pressure to deliver as many features as possible that they’ll claim they’re too busy to attend yet another meeting.
When the team reacts this way, you can bet that there’s pressure coming from somewhere. Maybe the pressure is self-inflicted. If the team overcommitted or put too much work on their sprint backlog, cutting meetings might sound appealing. Or maybe the pressure is coming from looming deadlines, or ...
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