Monday: publish a plan, once
Fifteen minutes, everyone in the same document, one plan for the week. Not a discussion of priorities in the abstract, a list of what is actually going to be done and by whom. Publish it so it is a snapshot rather than a living argument.
Daily: Today, and nothing else
No standup where everyone reads their list aloud. If the plan is published and Today is accurate, the standup is a five-line message about what is blocked. That is the only part anyone needed.
Friday: read the gap
Compare the published plan to what happened. Not to assign blame, to calibrate. Teams that do this for a month stop over-committing almost automatically, because the evidence is right there.
What to skip
Estimates in hours, story points, and any ritual that exists to produce a chart nobody acts on. At this size the chart is the meeting.
