Being Agile: Eleven Breakthrough Techniques to Keep You from “Waterfalling Backward”

Calendar Ruthlessness

One last practice is calendar ruthlessness. We all need to become much better managers of our calendars instead of being taken captive by them. Apart from the standard agile meetings (daily standups, iteration planning meetings, customer demonstrations, and reflections), are you going to a lot of other meetings? If so, do you need to go to them? Or are you going just out of curiosity or because you’re looking for some “face time?” Do you need to invite 36 people to your meeting, or can you get by with just a small subset of folks? Does the meeting have to be scheduled for an hour, or can you time-box it to 20 minutes?⁷ (Poorly run meetings are a bane to productivity.) Constantly running from meeting to meeting is a symptom ...