Hicks and Foster adapted the daily scrum concept to their research group. Instead of holding the meetings every day, they held them on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. They also changed the name to “status meetings.” Otherwise, the details remained largely the same: these gatherings lasted for fifteen minutes, and everyone on the research team answered the traditional three questions. They even experimented with holding the meetings standing up and found that, “surprisingly,” it really did help them stick to the constrained time limit. Hicks and Foster would participate as well, updating the
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