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🔧 What & why
Quick & regular team check-ins that
- drive alignment
- keeps your squad on track
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🔩 How you can do stand-ups
- Live — over a quick call
- Async — a thread in your project channel
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🔮 Planning
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🎯 Aim: to align our work for the week as a team, so we know what success would look like by the end of the week / sprint.
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- What are our aims for the week?
- What's carried over from last week?
- What might get in our way?
- What help do we need?
💡 You can use your Kanban board to check in with your squad & move cards in the same breath.
🧍🏽 Stand Ups
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🎯 Aim: to align on the work for the day, ask for help from each other.
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- How’s everyone doing?
- Is something holding us back?
- What do we want to achieve today?
- What help do we need from each other?
💡 What it's not - reading our calendar agenda for the day to each other!
🌝 Reflecting
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🎯 Aim: to recap on what we achieved / missed so we can check in on our OKRs.
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- What did we achieve?
- What did we miss?
- What did we learn?
- What will we do differently?
💡 Wanna zhuzh it up? Try a Retro
Stand-ups cadence example
The Project Owner should align on the cadence with PXL and the Squad during Pre-kick off + kick off meetings
It could look different depending on the scope of your project.
Tighter cadence
If there are lots of squad members doing different things.
- Every morning, async on Slack, each member shares an update
- E.g. Today my focus is ABC — I’ll need support with B. Who’s keen?
More spread out cadence
If the squad has clearly defined tasks for the week ahead that they can run with
- Mondays and Thursdays in a Squad call
- E.g. This week I’m doing user interviews — I’ll let you know what I find on Thursday and drop insights in the channel ad-hoc
Weekly cadence example
Depending on your needs, your cadence could be weekly, bi weekly…
Monday
Planning Session — 30min call
- Align on deliverables for the week ahead
- Give an update on Slack with the plan
- Every other week, have a Sprint planning session.
Tuesday
Stand up — async
Wednesday
Stand up — 15min call
- Making progress!
- A co-working session to make progress together.
Thursday
No meeting day
Stand up — async
- Making progress!
- Any pivots before end of week?
- Scope out the coming week - Sprint plan
Friday
Reflecting — 30min call
- Making progress!
- Give an update on Slack with the progress
- Reflect on the week and commit to change
- Monthly squad retro
- Prepare the next week
More detailed example — a People Partner’s week
