Engagement Meeting

The Engagement Meeting is a team discussion held at the outset of a team's first Cycle and between every Cycle thereafter. For newly Formed Teams, the Engagement Meeting is likely their first activity and provides an opportunity to develop their first Value Drivers and first Cycle Plan. (Refer to the OpenAgile Primer for more information about getting started.)



The OpenAgile Primer informs us of the following:
 * We begin every Cycle with an Engagement Meeting.
 * In the Engagement Meeting, we focus on Reflection and Learning followed by Planning.
 * We use Consultative Decision-Making to explore all the items in our list of Value Drivers and decide which of these will be done in the current Cycle. We break down each Value Driver into as many independent tasks as are necessary to satisfy the stakeholder.
 * The result of this meeting is called a Cycle Plan. The Cycle Plan consists of a number of tasks that we do during the Cycle.
 * While newly Launched Teams are required to hold reqular Engagement Meetings (at the beginning of every Cycle), Stable Teams are able to timebox their Engagement Meetings.