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The 15-Minute Formula: Make Your Remote Engineering Standups Work Better

With the proper structure and tools, remote engineering standups can be just as effective—and take no more than 15 minutes.

The Ultimate Guide to Backlog Health Metrics: Keeping Your Agile Team on Track

Backlog health directly impacts your team’s efficiency and output quality. Ignoring it can lead to delays, frustration, and wasted effort.

How to Make Your Retrospectives Fun

Retrospectives are vital to a team’s continuous improvement, offering a dedicated space to reflect, adapt, and evolve. However, sometimes they feel monotonous.

Lean Tarot in Agile: How to Boost Your Retrospectives

Transforming team dynamics with lean tarot, a fun and fresh way to boost retrospectives

Check your team status with monthly team insights

Exploring work behaviors that promote or block Lean thinking

Work behaviors through a fun, lean-thinking-inspired lens! This post introduces the Lean Tarot, a unique deck of 26 cards that highlight workplace habits affecting collaboration and efficiency.

Agile Simplified For Non-Software Teams

When people think of Agile, they often associate it with software development. But Agile principles aren’t just for tech teams.

5 Common Agile Estimation Techniques: How to Choose the Right One for Your Team

An introduction to five common Agile estimation techniques. Check and select the one that aligns with your team's specific needs

What To Know About The Emerging Agile Frameworks: SAFe VS LeSS

Both SAFe and LeSS offer solutions to help larger organizations scale Agile practices across multiple teams, but each takes a distinct approach.

Agile Estimations with Estimation Matrix

Enhance your team’s estimation process with Team O'clock’s Estimation Matrix for more accurate, efficient, and aligned Planning Poker sessions.

How to Facilitate a Remote Retrospective Like a Pro

What You Need to Know About the "Lean Coffee" Retrospective Template

Unlike traditional agenda-driven meetings, the Lean Coffee retrospective template promotes a more engaging, dynamic, and inclusive process.

Becoming a SCRUM Master in 2024: New Skills and Challenges

In 2024, the responsibilities of a modern SCRUM Master go beyond facilitating team meetings and overseeing sprints.

How to Measure Success in Agile Projects

Agile methodologies have quickly become a no-brainer across teams from various industries because they offer flexibility, collaboration, and iterative progress.

No More Boring Daily Standups!

A Guide to Setting Up a Full Sprint Cycle for Your Agile Team

A Step-by-Step Guide to Structuring Effective Sprints, Enhancing Team Communication, and Building a cadence for a Safe Agile Environment

Is Elon Musk's Algorithm Inspired by the Agile Manifesto?

What is the Agile Manifesto about? What can you copy from Elon Musk's unbeatable strategy and implement it in your own team? This blog will answer all of that.

Check-In Questions in Agile Meetings: What You Need To Know

For Agile teams prioritizing collaboration, and continuous improvement, check-in questions have emerged as a vital tool for maintaining team cohesion.

20 Icebreakers You Need For Your Next Agile Meeting

Agile coaches are responsible for building cohesive Agile teams. One simple yet powerful tool that has proven effective is using icebreakers in team meetings.

Servant Leadership in SCRUM: What You Need to Know

Servant leadership is crucial for SCRUM's success because it aligns with SCRUM's values, empowers team members, and fosters a collaborative environment.

The True Essence of Agile: How Introspection Fuels Growth

Ever wondered which is the secret weapon of high-performing Agile teams? Hint: it’s not their streamlined process.

Agile or Masked Waterfall? Are You Sure You're Not Faking It?

Despite adopting Agile terminology, many companies are still trapped in the Waterfall mindset. Are you one of them? Let's find out.

Today's Tech Stack Demands Remote and Agile – What's Next?

Eliminate waste from your Agile practices

Boost your Agile team's efficiency with lean principles. Learn practical tips and strategies for sustainable growth and improved workflows.

How to Identify Your Remote Team's Weak Points and Improve Them in 3 Ways

Remote work has become the new norm. While it offers flexibility and convenience, it also presents unique challenges that can affect team performance.

Meeting Less, Doing More: Strategies to Minimize Meetings in Remote Teams

Discover strategies to reduce and optimize meetings by embracing asynchronous communication, leveraging hybrid models, and implementing clear processes and response policies. Learn how to establish no-meeting times, utilize technology for efficient collaboration, and foster a culture of clear communication to boost productivity and maintain work-life balance.

10 Powerful Icebreaker Questions For Your Next Agile Meeting

Agile meetings are designed to foster elements like this, but sometimes, the formality of the process can hinder genuine connections among team members. This is where icebreaker questions come into play.

How to Eliminate Unproductive Activities and Focus on What Matters

Who doesn't get swamped by their never-ending to-do list nowadays? It's so easy to get bogged down by trivial tasks that sap our time and energy. These unproductive activities can prevent us from focusing on the work that truly matters.

How to Achieve More Participation in an Agile Meeting

Active engagement is crucial for the success of agile practices because it leads to better decision-making, problem-solving, and team cohesion. This blog will show strategies to enhance participation in an agile meeting, ensuring every voice is heard and valued.

Remote Agility Redefined: Free Remote SCRUM Guide for Seamless Agile Operations

How to Integrate Lean Thinking into Agile Ceremonies

What You Need to Know About the "Hopes and Concerns" Retrospective Template

The Agile Advantage: How Financial Institutions Overcome Remote Challenges

3 Playful Retrospective Examples Your Remote Team Will Love

10 FAQs About Daily Standup Meetings

How the 3 Little Pigs Retrospective Template Makes Agile Efficient

A Quick, Expert Guide for all Agile Ceremonies

What is Timeboxing and Why It Matters in SCRUM?

How to Find an Agile Coach For Your Team: A Comprehensive Guide

Use the Popular 'Start, Stop, Continue' Activity for Agile Success

Elevate Your Product Management Agile Practices

Maximize Your Productivity with the Team O'Clock Simple Timer

Mastering Action Items: Key Strategies for Effective Retrospective Outcomes

A retrospective is as good as the action items the team decides and acts upon.

Thriving in the Remote Work Era: Strategies for Building High-Performing Teams

2023 Agility Insights

Explore key insights from the 2023 Agility Report on agile meeting practices, highlighting trends in Daily Standups, Planning Poker, and Retrospectives amidst organizational shifts and the rise of generative AI. Discover how teams adapt to maintain alignment, efficiency, and team dynamics in a changing landscape.

Planning poker - Better async & sync team collaboration

How planning poker can fix asynchronous collaboration in your Agile team, offering insights on leveraging this technique for more efficient estimation.

2023 Agility Insights: The Power of SCRUM and Team O'Clock

Reflecting on trends of 2023 and looking to the future of SCRUM and Agile.

SCRUM Explained: 10 FAQs for SCRUM Masters

What are the responsibilities of a SCRUM Master? What are the tools a SCRUM Master uses? In this article we expand on these and other top questions around the SCRUM Master role.

Agile Success Unveiled: How Estimation Techniques Enhance Planning Poker

Explore how estimation techniques like Fibonacci and T-shirt sizing can assist your planning poker sessions, leading to more accurate and efficient Agile planning

Is Planning poker a waste of team time?

Uncover the downsides of planning poker and learn about effective estimation techniques that save time and enhance team productivity

How To Run A Standup From Your Work Chat App

Master remote standup meetings using work chat apps like Slack and Microsoft Teams for better team collaboration and efficiency.

AI Integration With SCRUM: Ensuring Ethical Practices In The Digital Era

Guides on AI and Scrum integration, focusing on ethical practices, challenges, and solutions for digital era agility.

Introducing Agility Cards

Discover how Agility Cards by Team O'Clock enhance your agile journey, rewarding teams for following best practices in scrum ceremonies.

Your FAQ about Agile, Now Answered!

What is an agile ceremony? What is a Scrum Master? What are some common challenges with agile ceremonies? These are some common questions about what Team O'clock offers and how that can be translated into your business and your team.

AI-Powered Retrospective: Optimizing Your Agile Practices

Integrating AI into the retrospective process, businesses can unlock valuable data-driven decision-making, fueling continuous improvement and propelling their agile practices to new heights.

Streamline user management

Introducing enhanced user management for faster meeting setups and efficient administrator controls, simplifying team organization.

The Ultimate Guide to Daily Standup Meetings in Agile

In this comprehensive guide, you will discover the intricacies of daily standup meetings, exploring their purpose, structure, best practices, and the benefits they bring to Agile teams.

How to Set Up Successful Planning Poker Meetings for Your Remote Team

Explore how to set up a Planning Poker meeting for your remote team, ensuring productive and engaging sessions.

How to Set up a Retrospective Meeting for Your Remote Team

Learn to set up impactful retrospective meetings for your remote team, fostering continuous improvement and team cohesion.

Boost Your Scrum Team's Success: Leveling Up Your Planning Poker and Adopting More Scrum Ceremonies

Discover next steps after planning poker to enhance team agility by integrating more scrum ceremonies for comprehensive growth.

AI-Assist(ance) for your meetings

Introducing AI-Assist to make your meetings more efficient, offering smart note grouping, actionable insights, and detailed summaries for agile teams.

2022 Agility Report Insights

Discover actionable insights from this agility study using actual data on scrum meetings and agility posture, enhancing your team's agile journey.

Let's give your daily standup a serious gut check

Learn how to make your daily standups impactful with tips on maintaining focus, encouraging participation, and addressing blockers efficiently.

Study on Agility Posture

Uncover insights on agile transformation stages focusing on how planning poker, retrospectives, and daily standups' frequency impacts team agility.

Asana Integration

Make planning poker and retrospectives seamless, ensuring task visibility and efficient action item tracking in your tool.

Measure your agile performance

Discover how Team O'Clock's agility metrics transform scrum event data into actionable insights, enhancing team growth, happiness, and alignment.

Top 5 trending retrospective activities

What are the top 5 activities used for retrospective? What other activities are trending lately?

Small steps to improve your async scrum meetings

Mood pulse ratings

Good Scrum Masters and Team Leaders are constantly getting the pulse of their team: Is the motivation high? Is something bothering the team?

Retrospective meeting on a remote setting

Homepage metrics, a BEFORE and AFTER case

Agile Maps have a new look

Team O’clock Onboarding performance

Mindful approach for the onboarding experience

Improvements on people onboarding in the platform

Team O'clock API v2

Enhanced Team O’clock — Jira integration

Work better with the Jira in Team O’clock to update story points on estimated tasks, and create tickets on retrospective action items.

Planning poker — async edition

The web version of Team O’clock planning poker just got a major revamp, focusing on asynchronous estimation.

Daily Standup revision [2020]

Agile Maps quality of life updates

An improved version of Agile Maps focusing on quality of life fixes

Planning poker meeting

Run your estimation sessions in Team O'clock

Hello Agile Maps!

Align your teams and your company around Agile methodologies in an effort to help your Agile transformation.

How a proper meeting invitation sets the stage for a successful meeting

The subtle art of a sticking to the point.

When should a topic be ready for a meeting?

Or how to stop worrying about fast response and start worrying about efficient response