Agile development - billed for SCRUM meetings?

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Hi all,

I'm wondering if it's common practice / fair for an IT development company to bill for SCRUM meetings?

Our developers recently started doing this, as they have a bigger team working on one of our projects.

I can understand the need for SCRUM - but I don't know what's common practice.

Thanks
 
Why wouldn't they? Are the meetings not part of the development/delivery effort? What's the difference between a "Scrum meeting" (whatever that is, I assume you mean a daily stand-up?) and any other sort of meeting in terms of being billable?
 
I'd expect all time spent on the project to be billable unless it was specifically excluded. Even where not being explicitly billed as a separate item, the chances are it is incorporated into other lines.
 
HangTime said:
I'd expect all time spent on the project to be billable unless it was specifically excluded.
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This tbh.. we had a minimum billing period of 1 hour too so if you had a bunch of small tasks to deal with for different clients, projects etc.. then you could stack them up and end up billing say 14 hours worth of work in a day where you only really worked 9 hours. I'd bill for anything and everything I could tbh.. because at the end of the year you can point at some revenue that you earned and use it to tell your boss you want more money/more bonus etc.. sadly the business model started changing at my old firm and they went for more of a commodity/off the shelf approach which maybe makes things simpler for the company but is delivering a sub par solution for most of the clients when they eventually upgrade.
 
Maybe you'd feel better if you just got an invoice with a number on without the description? It's part of the development process and so it's billable.
 
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