2022
AGILITY
REPORT
Patterns around scrum and agile usage across companies, through anonymized Team O'clock data.
AGILITY POSTURE
What scrum meetings do companies perform the most? What that meeting distribution says about the average maturity of applying scrum practices?
14.8%
time on
retrospectives
44%
time on
daily standup
41.2%
time on
planning poker
Measured agility posture describes how companies start to understand agile and scrum practices.
THE RETROSPECTIVE
Retrospectives help a team identify their strengths and weaknesses. A retrospective event aligns a team over areas of improvement.
Companies have on average
Retrospectives
per month
Teams perform retrospectives twice a month, to check on how they work together and grow as a team.
New action items
per month
Around 3 action items are added per retrospective. Teams actively seek areas for further improvement.
resolved action items
per month
Taking action to improve 5x each month! Teams stay consistent adding and resolving action items!
Synchronous retrospective
Average retrospective
duration
Teams keep retrospective meetings short.
Gathering notes
across members
A big part of the retrospective is spent on members collecting their notes.
Asynchronous retrospective
Average retrospective
duration
2.5 🌎 rotations, covering all timezones. Remote participants have more than 18 working hours to share their thoughts.
Gathering notes
across members
A day and 8 hours is spent on gathering thoughts. Remote teams kickstart their async retrospectives with the first day allocated on writing notes.
Beyond gathering notes,
the discussion stage is where teams spend their time.
Participants discuss to create meaningful action items.
THE DAILY STANDUP
Standup helps a team gain alignment over current work in progress, resolve any blocking issues, and cross-check that they’re working on the most important stuff.
Standups
per month
Every 2nd working day teams align their focus.
Average Standup
participants
8 people is the average size of a team working on scrum/agile.
Synchronous standup
Asynchronous standup
Teams have a slight preference over meeting in-person for their daily standups, compared to not meet at all and perform an asynchronous standup.
Synchronous Daily Standup
Average standup
duration
2.25 hours per month is spent on an in-person standup meeting. Validating and unblocking work increments.
Average speaking time
per member
Each member is efficient at sharing updates on work in progress, impediments, and next items to work on.
Asynchronous Daily Standup
Average standup
duration
Covering almost all timezones, as the maximum possible time difference is 12 hours.
Async standup
in chat app
1 in 3 teams use an established chat service for their daily standup.
THE PLANNING POKER SESSION
Planning poker helps the team refine upcoming work and provide an unbiased estimate of the effort required. During this ceremony, the team usually refines blurry aspects of future work.
Overall
vote alignment
Members votes are not that aligned over the effort needed for upcoming work.
Average voted effort
per task
Between 5 and 8 of Fibonacci scale for story point estimation. Tasks that are voted tend to be large, some further breakdown could be useful.
Tasks voted
per session
Teams spend a significant time on each task during a session. This means that voted tasks are well defined.
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