2023
AGILITY
REPORT
The agile usage landscape in a year of emerging AI and company changes, through anonymized Team O'clock data.
AGILITY POSTURE
Uncover key trends in Scrum meetings. Explore the most frequent Scrum ceremonies among companies and what these patterns reveal about their Scrum practice maturity. Get insights on Agile adoption through meeting analysis.
14.6%
time on
retrospectives
43.6%
time on
daily standup
41.8%
time on
planning poker
Companies starting with agile meetings are gradually maturing by holding more Daily Standups, indicating a growing agility posture.
THE RETROSPECTIVE
Retrospectives empower teams to pinpoint their strengths and areas for growth, facilitating alignment and collective focus on improvement.
Companies have on average
Retrospectives
per month
Teams perform retrospectives at least once a month, to check on how they work together and grow as a team.
New action items
per month
Around 3 action items are added per retrospective. Teams actively seek areas for further improvement.
resolved action items
per month
Taking action to improve at the same pace with action items items!
Synchronous retrospective
Average retrospective
duration
Teams keep retrospective meetings long enough.
Gathering notes
across members
A big part of the retrospective is spent on members collecting their notes.
Asynchronous retrospective
Average retrospective
duration
Almost 3 days. Remote participants have 3 full working days to contribute in the team retrospective!
Gathering notes
across members
A full day and a halfis spent on gathering thoughts. Remote teams take their time during async retrospectives to properly share their notes.
Beyond gathering notes,
the discussion stage is where teams spend their time.
Participants discuss to create meaningful action items.
THE DAILY STANDUP
Daily Standups foster team alignment on current projects, facilitate the resolution of blockers, and ensure focus on priority tasks.
Standups
per month
Every 2nd working day teams align their focus.
Average Standup
participants
7 to 8 people teams working on scrum/agile.
Synchronous standup
Asynchronous standup
Teams slightly prefer meeting in person for their daily standups, rather than not meeting or conducting them asynchronously.
Synchronous Daily Standup
Average standup
duration
2.25 hours per month is spent on an in-person standup meeting. Validating and unblocking work increments.
Average speaking time
per member
Usually one or two members dominates a synchronous standup with updates.
Asynchronous Daily Standup
Average standup
duration
Covering all timezones, as the maximum possible time difference is 12 hours.
Async standup
in chat app
1 in 2 teams use an established chat service for their daily standup.
THE PLANNING POKER SESSION
Planning poker helps the team refine upcoming work and provide an unbiased estimate of the effort required. During this ceremony, the team usually refines blurry aspects of future work.
Overall
vote alignment
Members votes are not that aligned over the effort needed for upcoming work.
Average voted effort
per task
Between 5 and 8 of Fibonacci scale for story point estimation. Tasks that are voted tend to be large, some further breakdown could be useful.
Tasks voted
per session
Teams spend a significant time on each task during a session. This means that voted tasks are well defined.
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