Do traditional agile meetings still work for remote teams❓

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When your team is spread across time zones, those 'quick daily stand-ups' could become productivity blockers.

Here are three clear signs your remote agile meetings need rethinking:

☑️Team members sit silently in video calls while one person shares their screen, updating Jira tickets.

The same update could have happened async, respecting everyone's focus time.

☑️Conversations keep circling back because important context gets lost between time zones.

What was clear in yesterday's discussion needs to be completely rehashed next week.

☑️Your stand-ups run forever because remote team members hesitate to contribute, leading to more follow-up meetings just to get everyone's input.

When meetings drain energy instead of driving progress, innovation suffers.

What challenges have you faced with agile meetings as a remote team member?

[Stephen_Lugton]

Our team has members in 3 different time zones, but luckily there is a 4 hour time period when we're all working so we have our stand ups and other meetings during this period. 

On days when we're having planning / review sessions we cancel the stand up and have the planning or review at the time that we would have the stand up so as to keep consistency as much as possible with timings and workloads.

Since I moderate the meetings, I do have my screen open so everyone can see it, but I make sure to ask everyone for their input to the meeting and generally don't allow people to to sit silently in these calls.  I do make sure to vary the order that I ask people for their input and when someone mentions something they're doing with another team member I typically move on to the person that they mentioned so as to keep the conversation flowing.

[Evan Fishman - Rally for Jira]

@Stephen_Lugton This is quite similar to what we do at Rally. We all have our calendars synced, so any 2 team members who want to collaborate could do so if they find the opening.

We sometimes have our standups this way too, but most times, we do everything else on our app. Eating our own dog food lol 

Especially for planning or Backlog refinements, select the Jira tickets as an agenda, set a timer for collaboration and inputs, and share the link to the Rally session with the team via Slack or email. We also assign the tickets right in the sessions.