Facilitation Foundations: Eliminating Waste From Agile Meetings
summary
Claims a reproducible facilitation recipe that cuts meeting waste by forcing decisions, timeboxes and visible tradeoffs: estimate 426 items in under an hour using product-first t‑shirt sizing, quick developer sanity checks, and a 10‑minute first pass followed by a 30‑minute reconciliation. Uses physical walls, a “garbage can” shuffle, planning poker and a limited dot budget so business pays for urgency. Case example: method compresses days of debate into 49 minutes and produces usable priorities.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:08Meetings feel like waste
- 5:27Questioning meeting habits
- 9:06Facilitation tools
- 13:23Impromptu meeting pitfalls
- 18:14Vision and strategy
- 23:27Product owners and stakeholders
- 27:21Planning poker challenges
- 33:05T-shirt sizing estimation
- 37:53Backlog prioritization
- 40:48Team estimation process
- 43:34Closing and key takeaways
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