I still remember when I ran one of my first project retro and we listed “meetings” as the top blocker, twice in a row. That was the moment we killed three syncs and moved to strong communication dashboards and new slack rules. The surprising part? Velocity didn’t go up at first. But morale did.
That's a great point as well- it's good to look at the whole picture of what has improved. High morale gives you long term benefits and if the velocity didn't suffer, that means that the cut meetings didn't provide any additional value that couldn't be provided in an async way.
I still remember when I ran one of my first project retro and we listed “meetings” as the top blocker, twice in a row. That was the moment we killed three syncs and moved to strong communication dashboards and new slack rules. The surprising part? Velocity didn’t go up at first. But morale did.
That's a great point as well- it's good to look at the whole picture of what has improved. High morale gives you long term benefits and if the velocity didn't suffer, that means that the cut meetings didn't provide any additional value that couldn't be provided in an async way.