2024
AGILITY
REPORT
Agile usage landscape in the year that continuous iteration is a given, through anonymized Team O'clock data.
AGILITY POSTURE
Uncover key trends in Scrum meetings. Explore the most frequent Scrum ceremonies among companies and what these patterns reveal about their Scrum practice maturity. Get insights on Agile adoption through meeting analysis.
17.9%
time on
retrospectives
45.6%
time on
daily standup
36.5%
time on
planning poker
Teams are starting to mature in their continuous iteration practices, leading with more Daily Standups and an increase in Retrospectives, indicating a growing agility posture.
THE RETROSPECTIVE
Retrospectives empower teams to pinpoint their strengths and areas for growth, facilitating alignment and collective focus on improvement.
Companies have on average
Retrospectives
per month
Teams perform at max a retrospective in a month, to check on how they work together and grow as a team.
New action items
per month
A max of 2 action items are added per retrospective. Teams are more mindful in setting growth goals.
resolved action items
per month
Taking action to improve at the same pace with action items items!
Synchronous retrospective
Average retrospective
duration
Teams keep retrospective meetings long enough.
Gathering notes
across members
A big part of the retrospective is spent on members collecting their notes.
Asynchronous retrospective
Average retrospective
duration
A full 3 days for Remote participants to contribute in the team retrospective!
Gathering notes
across members
Almost 2 days for gathering member notes! Remote teams take their time during async retrospectives to properly share their notes.
Teams are taking a more mindful approach for their retrospectives.
Fewer action items and more time for member to share their thoughts.
THE DAILY STANDUP
Daily Standups foster team alignment on current projects, facilitate the resolution of blockers, and ensure focus on priority tasks.
Standups
per month
Almost twice a week teams align their focus.
Average Standup
participants
Teams of 8 people are working on scrum/agile.
Synchronous standup
Asynchronous standup
Almost half of the teams are meeting in person for their daily standups.
Synchronous Daily Standup
Average standup
duration
Teams are keeping their synchronous standups short and focused.
Average speaking time
per member
There are a few members that dominate the Daily Standup, eating up 8 out of the 9 minutes of the meeting duration.
Asynchronous Daily Standup
Average standup
duration
Covering all timezones, as the maximum possible time difference is 12 hours.
Async standup
in chat app
1 in 2 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
Teams invested in vote alignment in 2024! The results show a high level of agreement on the effort required for tasks.
Average voted effort
per task
Between 3 and 5 of Fibonacci scale for story point estimation. Tasks that are voted are manageable, leading to higher team security.
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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