If you do scrum properly you shouldn't have a lot of meetings for "planning and ceremonies". We follow "scrum and xp from the trenches" quite closely. We have four meetings:
- scrum planning (max 1h/week of the sprint)*
- dailies (max 15 minutes per meeting)*
- demo (we like to call it sprint review, because it's interactive, not one-sided). takes about 30 minutes
- retro (takes an hour)
*most of the times we use a lot less
So we have 2h of meetings in the first weeks, 2.5h of meetings in the second week if you do a two-week sprint as we do. the rest of the meetings is rather "working together" than having "meetings". If you have much more hours in meetings than this (which can be attributed to scrum) you're simply doing it wrong.
*most of the times we use a lot less
So we have 2h of meetings in the first weeks, 2.5h of meetings in the second week if you do a two-week sprint as we do. the rest of the meetings is rather "working together" than having "meetings". If you have much more hours in meetings than this (which can be attributed to scrum) you're simply doing it wrong.