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Re:Are daily standups hurting your team? by spaetzleesser on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @02:04PM (#29098270)
"Daily stand-ups are for coordinating with the other devs. E.g. "It will take a couple extra days to do this backend API that you are waiting for", "I'm a bit stuck, anybody will have free time today to pair program?", "Who is able to drop their low priority task so that the high priority one gets done on time?"

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Why do you need standups for this? They should talk to each other directly.

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Re:Are daily standups hurting your team? by higeorge13 on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @02:56PM (#29098839)
Because sometimes devs might not be listening/talking to others, and just need someone to organize an offline discussion to unblock them.

I have been to a team where X would need help on something that Y has solved in the past, Y does not care to listen in the standup and volunteer to help, and i had to ping him β€œHey Y you have resolved this in the past, care to help X after the standup?”

Shitty standups go bidirectional ways. Managers can make them terrible, but devs can do that as well.

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