Re:The good, the bad and the ugly standup
by nilkn on Monday January 27, 2020 @06:06PM
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We've experimented with both in-person and purely digital standups through Slack. The latter was exceptionally convenient, but we found it almost never led to any meaningful conversations. It became 100% a status report. In-person standups for us, on the other hand, follow the template of a status report, but every once in a while lead to a really important exchange happening between a few team members that really unblocks someone or course corrects something early on. So we've went back to only in-person standups.
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Re:The good, the bad and the ugly standup
by overgard on Monday January 27, 2020 @06:41PM
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That sounds nice, although a lot of places those conversations immediately got killed because of "cross-talk". Sigh.
Yes! This is the important interaction not the update itself but the chance to stop a problem or course correct early.
Re:The good, the bad and the ugly standup
by celticmusic on Monday January 27, 2020 @07:04PM
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I guess I'm weird because I'm able to have a conversation with someone without standing up in a circle playing whatever games the specific manager wants to play.