How much time per week do you have dedicated to sprint meetings? Another issue we have is requirements are always lacking because it’s always fires (and everything is P1).
How much time per week do you have dedicated to sprint meetings? Another issue we have is requirements are always lacking because it’s always fires (and everything is P1).
But if you have frequent P1 fires, then you definitely need the retros quite often. In our case, we always do post mortems for a P1. We dig deep into root causes and this alone is a significant meeting. If it's P1, then, well, it should take everyone's attention. If it's not that major, then it should be some other level. But they shouldn't be happening more than one a quarter or something. It's okay to not be adding features – sometimes reducing fires is significant progress, lol.
Sprint planning meetings for us is just 30 min. We update a doc, it doubles as the retro. Most of the tickets and stuff is already managed by Jira; PM just ticks what we plan to do that sprint. Requirements have already been reviewed before the meeting starts, the meeting is where we work out a plan for it.
Sounds like normal career in development to me.