🧭 Engineering Leadership · Team Process

Audit your agile ceremonies ruthlessly

Keep rituals that produce decisions; delete the rest or shorten them.

intermediate~30 minEngineering ManagersTech LeadsStaff Engineers

Steps

1Timebox audit: cost each ceremony × attendees × frequency annually
2Standups answer three things only: done, next, blocked
3Planning consumes estimates only where they change decisions
4Retro produces max two tracked actions with owners
5Async-first updates replace broadcast meetings
6Re-audit quarterly; ceremony creep is real

Common Pitfalls

▲Ceremonies performed for process-compliance optics
▲Estimation debates longer than implementation

Commands

Install with skills CLI

$ npx skills add aniruddhaadak80/skills --skill team-process-sprint-ceremonies-audit

Install globally

$ npx skills add aniruddhaadak80/skills --skill team-process-sprint-ceremonies-audit -g

Tags

#agile#process#meetings#engineering-leadership#team-process

Install this skill

$ npx skills add aniruddhaadak80/skills --skill team-process-sprint-ceremonies-audit -a opencode

SKILL.md

# Audit your agile ceremonies ruthlessly

> Keep rituals that produce decisions; delete the rest or shorten them.

## When to Use This Skill

Keep rituals that produce decisions; delete the rest or shorten them.

## Steps

1. Timebox audit: cost each ceremony × attendees × frequency annually
2. Standups answer three things only: done, next, blocked
3. Planning consumes estimates only where they change decisions
4. Retro produces max two tracked actions with owners
5. Async-first updates replace broadcast meetings
6. Re-audit quarterly; ceremony creep is real

## Common Pitfalls

- Ceremonies performed for process-compliance optics
- Estimation debates longer than implementation

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