Mozammel’s Blog|on Software Development

At Therap our scrum meetings used to grow longer than our expected time frame of 15 minutes. It was working as a deterrent for the module owners and other participants to actively participate in the daily scrums efficiently. So, to tame ourselves from swiveling away from core scrum topics, we have recently started to time our scrum meetings. This nifty little tool is coming quite handy:

Scrum Timer

Now we focus on keeping the core scrum meeting short and if any other issues come up during our scrum meeting, we keep it in a list of ad hoc issues. After the scrum only interested members remain for the ad hoc meeting which goes for another 15 minutes or so. And yes, we time that meeting too.