We cancelled standups and let the team build

Re:We cancelled standups and let the team build by teh_klev on Thursday September 24, 2020 @09:05PM (#24585477)

This ^^^ we do a 30 minute standup every morning (remotely) and it's mostly the same except we get about three mins per team member. It's also a good time to bring up issues if user stories/acceptance criteria aren't well enough refined after coming out of draft and that gets taken to another, usually short meeting with the PM's individually.

In that 30 mins we also handle bug reports and assign blah blah blah.

Those 30 mins are 100% focused to stuff people are working on, except for an initial 5 mins or so of chit chat. It's massively efficient and massively productive. So whatever the writer of this article was doing, it certainly wasn't a standup. I'm not big on prescriptive process, but a well organised standup is unbeatable.

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Re:We cancelled standups and let the team build by dingaling on Friday September 25, 2020 @12:57AM (#24586704)

> we do a 30 minute standup every morning

If you wouldn't feel comfortable standing with a coffee for the duration of the standup then it's too long.

30 minutes is far too long and is well into conventional status-meeting territory. Aim for 10.

Flip the premise of the meeting from "who's working on what" to "who's blocked by what". If there's no problem, say nothing. Not only does that save time, it is also more empowering for those with problems because they're not "swimming against the current" of those who are reporting their successes.

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