Overview

This skill structures and facilitates agile ceremonies—standups, retrospectives, sprint planning—and tracks sprint progress. It also documents action items, measures team health, and creates weekly summaries to keep teams aligned and delivering.

How This Skill Works

It uses standardized templates to structure standups (Yesterday, Today, Blockers) and retrospectives, logs progress, and surfaces blockers and actions. It then generates weekly summaries and basic health signals to guide continuous improvement.

When to Use It

• Daily standups (sync or async)
• Sprint retrospectives
• Sprint planning
• Progress tracking
• Team health checks

Quick Start

1. Step 1: Set up daily standups using the DAILY_STANDUP.template.md with Yesterday, Today, and Blockers.
2. Step 2: Run sprint ceremonies (retrospectives, sprint planning) using the provided templates and track progress.
3. Step 3: Compile weekly summaries and follow up on action items; monitor team health through templates.

Best Practices

• Keep standups under 15 minutes
• Make blockers specific and actionable
• Follow up on previous retro actions
• Quantify progress where possible
• Celebrate team accomplishments

Example Use Cases

• Facilitated a 6-person dev team's daily standup using the standard Yesterday/Today/Blockers format to surface blockers quickly.
• Led a sprint retrospective with What went well, What didn't go well, What we learned, and Action items, resulting in two concrete process improvements.
• Tracked sprint progress on the project board and produced a weekly summary for stakeholders, improving transparency.
• Integrated blockers and action-item follow-ups from retro actions into the sprint backlog.
• Monitored team health checks and surfaced insights to guide sprint improvements.

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