Re:Does scrum ruin great engineers or are you doing it wrong?
by username90 on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @12:18PM
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If a useful discussion happens during a standup the people discussing can just leave and let the others continue the standup without them. There is no point in being strict with these things.
Re:Does scrum ruin great engineers or are you doing it wrong?
by mindcrime on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @12:49PM
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Agreed. I was just curious about why, specifically, the parent poster never schedules follow-ups. If the discussion in question was actually valuable, it seems like they would want to pick it up later (or use your approach of just forking off immediately. I look at those two things are being approximately equivalent).
Re:Does scrum ruin great engineers or are you doing it wrong?
by cutemonster on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @08:33AM
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> can just leave and let the others continue
That can be hard -- many / some people would be worried it'd be impolite to leave and in a way say "the things you're talking about aren't interesting to me".
And they'll stay and feel frustrated, in silence.
Have you considered that if this didn't happen, it would be one of your co-workers on this thread, instead of you, and they'd be complaining that:
"Our scrum standups are supposed to be 15 minutes long, but they always take an hour or more, because people start going down some rabbit hole that doesn't concern half the team, and the scrum master won't politely interrupt and ask them to schedule a separate meeting. So much time has been wasted by this that it's unbelievable."
I have never scheduled a separate meeting to continue the discussion.
Why not?