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AA163 - Async Daily Scrum: The Pros and Cons (with Ed Martin)

May 08, 2024 Brian Orlando Season 1 Episode 163
AA163 - Async Daily Scrum: The Pros and Cons (with Ed Martin)
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Arguing Agile Podcast
AA163 - Async Daily Scrum: The Pros and Cons (with Ed Martin)
May 08, 2024 Season 1 Episode 163
Brian Orlando

In this episode, we're joined by Ed Martin to discuss and debate the benefits and challenges of asynchronous daily scrum meetings. 

Listen as we explore the reasons teams may want to go async, potential pitfalls to avoid, and best practices to make async standups effective. If your team is struggling with async practices, listen as we explore ways to optimize your async workflow, including:

  • The top reasons teams switch to async standups
  • Anti-patterns and pitfalls to watch out for 
  • Best practices and tools to enable effective async collaboration
  • How to maintain team alignment without meeting in real-time

Let us know your thoughts! Have you tried async standups with your team?

#agile #scrum #remotework #asynccollaboration #productmanagement

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In this episode, we're joined by Ed Martin to discuss and debate the benefits and challenges of asynchronous daily scrum meetings. 

Listen as we explore the reasons teams may want to go async, potential pitfalls to avoid, and best practices to make async standups effective. If your team is struggling with async practices, listen as we explore ways to optimize your async workflow, including:

  • The top reasons teams switch to async standups
  • Anti-patterns and pitfalls to watch out for 
  • Best practices and tools to enable effective async collaboration
  • How to maintain team alignment without meeting in real-time

Let us know your thoughts! Have you tried async standups with your team?

#agile #scrum #remotework #asynccollaboration #productmanagement

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Watch it on YouTube
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Subscribe to our YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8XUSoJPxGPI8EtuUAHOb6g?sub_confirmation=1

Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/agile-podcast/id1568557596

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/362QvYORmtZRKAeTAE57v3

Amazon Music:
https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/ee3506fc-38f2-46d1-a301-79681c55ed82/Agile-Podcast

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AA159 - Async Daily Scrum
Topic Intro: Async Daily Scrum
Why Async?
Breaking Flow and Scrum Anti-Patterns
Successful Async Daily Scrum
Brian's Pushback: Real-Time Collaboration
Podcast Topic Borders
A Typically (Bad) Daily Scrum
Asynchronous Collaboration
Co-Location and Async Tools
Time Zone & Perception Challenges
On-Demand ("Pull") Collaboration
Benefits of Transparency, Maybe
Successful Async: Trigger Condition
Successful Async: Walking the Board
Resisting Collaboration
Ed's Key Challenge
Brian's Final Thoughts
Ed's Final Thoughts
Wrap-Up