Our scrum master on the team I am working with has advocated a mid-sprint checkpoint meeting, to see how things are going, and take a progress pulse. I said this sounded a bit like  to me, but that didn't go over very well. I left it at that, but was just thinking about it some more. Why would we need a mid-sprint checkpoint meeting? The burn down chart clearly shows our progress on the sprint, trend lines are good, and everyone is reporting progress and no impediments in stand-up every day. Another meeting? Sounds counter-productive to me, just to see where we are - when we should all know where we are. There are now even have a couple new wide screen monitors displaying 4 rotating web pages, used as information radiators for the team. Everything seems to be good, and going by the book for scrum, so just little things like this that remind me of my Microsoft days cause me to take pause and say hmmm.....

Perhaps a 3 week sprint is too long if we need a mid-sprint review. See the prior article for more information on sprint lengths...