Some of those things are important, but shouldn’t take a day. Any guess is the meeting organizers aren’t preparing well enough, and aren’t keeping the meeting o

Some of those things are important, but shouldn’t take a day. Any guess is the meeting organizers aren’t preparing well enough, and aren’t keeping the meeting on track. Pointing stories should never take more than an hour for example. There is little benefit to tedious discussion because engineering estimates aren’t that accurate anyways. You need to weight, not measure, so business can understand relative costs. The whole point of Agile is to deliver high velocity to the customers highest priorities, with frequent releases and course adjustments. If you spend 10% of your teams velocity on standing ceremonies, there should be a really compelling reason.