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I would say it's not so much about improving the efficiency of the team, but rather removing things that reduce the efficiency of the team, of which there are m

I would say it's not so much about improving the efficiency of the team, but rather removing things that reduce the efficiency of the team, of which there are many. For me it's Scrum. Every two weeks we have a full-day meeting with the entire team. In addition, every Thursday and Friday we have a meeting mid-morning of "analysis" (whole team) which means I can't get anything significant done beforehand, nor afterwards in the morning. That only leaves the afternoon, and I'm sort of a morning person, so most Thurs/Fri afternoons I don't get anything done either. I do want to get a lot done, but the company gets in my way, so what am I to do, I have to accept it.

loloquwowndueo 5y ago
That’s not strictly speaking scrum’s fault. The analysis meetings are not part of it, and the full-day biweekly meeting seems excessive - demo and planning when closing a sprint should be at most half a day. It sounds like the team is too big if you’re using so much time in meetings - takes a long time for everyone to do their demos and then still longer to plan the next sprint (too-big team = “too much capacity” - so planning all the work takes too long). Maybe split into two teams and have them pick work from the backlog independently, or have two backlogs depending on each sub team’s strengths.