Re:We cancelled standups and let the team build
by ardy42 on Thursday September 24, 2020 @05:30PM
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> I just got out of my team's standup. MY team has 8 people. The standup lasted 6 minutes. I think the people who complain about this, are the ones who have a reason to complain. You don't hear the success stories.
I'm not sure if I'd count a 6 minute standup as a success story. My guess is the only person deriving any value from it is some kind of manager who's tracking status, and pulling everyone into a meeting room to do that is mainly just a convenience for that person.
The kind of information that can be conveyed in less than 1 minute per person is likely information that can be collected less disruptively in other ways.
From my perspective as a developer, the best "standups" were the ones that actually deviated from orthodoxy, where we talked about some technical issue or something.
I'm not sure if I'd count a 6 minute standup as a success story. My guess is the only person deriving any value from it is some kind of manager who's tracking status, and pulling everyone into a meeting room to do that is mainly just a convenience for that person.
The kind of information that can be conveyed in less than 1 minute per person is likely information that can be collected less disruptively in other ways.
From my perspective as a developer, the best "standups" were the ones that actually deviated from orthodoxy, where we talked about some technical issue or something.