Question

You are leading a globally distributed agile team with members in three continents. During a recent sprint, several team members complained that the daily coordination meetings force some people to attend at 5:00 a.m. or 11:00 p.m. their local time, and morale is dropping. The team wants to keep the benefits of synchronous collaboration but reduce the burden on any single group. What should you do FIRST?

Accepted Answer

Facilitate a conversation with the whole team to jointly establish a rotating meeting schedule and agreed collaboration norms that share the inconvenience fairly

Answer

Fix the meeting at the time that works best for the largest group, since majority preference produces the most overall value

Answer

Eliminate all synchronous meetings and require the team to coordinate exclusively through asynchronous written updates

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Escalate to the resource managers and ask them to adjust each team member's contracted working hours