Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones
by jraph on Monday January 31, 2022 @05:05PM
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> Daily stand-ups are mostly also not really that useful
This is my feeling. Wouldn't a weekly meeting where we don't need to stand up be sufficient for this?
I guess it depends on the people and how they function. And how the team communicates throughout the day or the week.
Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones
by Wiseacre on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @01:53AM
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My team's daily stand up is incredibly useful. If we didn't find them useful we would have no problem moving them to 2 or 3 times a week. YMMV but as a team lead I hate taking up more of people's time than necessary.
Daily stand-ups are mostly also not really that useful - but getting team together so they are used to at least 15-20 mins talking to each other I believe has benefits anyway.
The same with writing unit tests, I see my team is writing too many useless unit tests. But then if we have habit of writing tests - important tests will get written as well. If we would skip tests and say that we write only "important ones" then I saw that no tests were written in period where we had such an approach.