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

Arguing Agile Podcast

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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Chapters

1. AA159 - Async Daily Scrum (00:00:00)

2. Topic Intro: Async Daily Scrum (00:00:17)

3. Why Async? (00:00:36)

4. Breaking Flow and Scrum Anti-Patterns (00:02:23)

5. Successful Async Daily Scrum (00:04:26)

6. Brian's Pushback: Real-Time Collaboration (00:06:25)

7. Podcast Topic Borders (00:08:26)

8. A Typically (Bad) Daily Scrum (00:10:02)

9. Asynchronous Collaboration (00:12:06)

10. Co-Location and Async Tools (00:14:17)

11. Time Zone & Perception Challenges (00:16:26)

12. On-Demand ("Pull") Collaboration (00:18:41)

13. Benefits of Transparency, Maybe (00:22:01)

14. Successful Async: Trigger Condition (00:23:35)

15. Successful Async: Walking the Board (00:25:44)

16. Resisting Collaboration (00:28:15)

17. Ed's Key Challenge (00:31:27)

18. Brian's Final Thoughts (00:35:23)

19. Ed's Final Thoughts (00:37:45)

20. Wrap-Up (00:38:45)