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Re:You don’t need standups by patmcc on Thursday August 02, 2018 @02:57PM (#17674396)
>>In fact, all I like about standups is seeing my team mates once a day.

Yeah, I think a better way to do standups is a couple minutes of social time, and "anybody finish anything? any blockers?" rather than going person-by-person.

Re:You don’t need standups by sidlls on Thursday August 02, 2018 @03:06PM (#17674483)
I've run my team's stand-ups for several years now. I find without going person by person there is less communication. I still restrict each person's comments to blockers and their agenda for the time until the next standup (not daily). It's not uncommon for "no blockers, tickets X, Y, Z for next day or two" to be it for a report. It's not common but occasionally this will remind someone else of a blocker they have which they can chime in with during their update or else at the end if they've already gone.
Re:You don’t need standups by rickyc091 on Thursday August 02, 2018 @03:16PM (#17674595)
Agreed with this. I'm actually curious what level of engineers Jason is leading. If it's a group of senior engineers, I'd imagine everyone already knows what's expected of them, but a group of junior engineers might be a different story.
Re:You don’t need standups by matthewmacleod on Thursday August 02, 2018 @03:11PM (#17674545)
rather than going person-by-person.

Better still for us has been going task-by-task rather than person-by-person. Look at everything which is in progress, get a quick update on it, move on. Five minutes tops, everybody is up-to-date, issues flagged.

Re:You don’t need standups by Sharlin on Thursday August 02, 2018 @03:31PM (#17674722)
Yes! At my last workplace we switched from person-to-person to task-to-task and it worked great.