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Take Charge of Your Development Cycles
In the previous chapter, we discussed how to make your daily standups more productive by moving them to a more asynchronous format. While standup meetings have been around for a long time, in the last two decades they’ve become ubiquitous because people follow them as part of scrum. And if you’re following scrum, then you probably also follow a few other rituals to run your sprints.
If you’re trying to work in an async-first fashion, these rituals represent heavy interruptions in your flow. So, how do you run an iterative development process while still being async-first?
Sprint Ceremonies Can Hinder Async Work
If you’ve practiced scrum in your career, I expect you’ll be familiar with the timeline in ...
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