Re:Launch HN: Spinach.io (YC W22) – Better daily standups
by 0xbadcafebee on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @10:43AM
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I really like the idea. It's easy to tell people what they're supposed to do, but people need help to stick to the plan. Automated guiderails are a great way to smoothly enforce a process.
Some things I'd suggest based on the demo:
- A splash page right before the stand-up begins to remind people to resist the urge to explain in detail what they did; two sentences per item is more than enough. If a question can't be answered in two sentences, it should immediately become a Team Topic.
- A big countdown timer that gets more red and shakes as time goes on, both for each individual person, and for how long the whole standup is taking.
- Some buttons to create a Jira item, Zoom meeting, etc from a Team Topic, and share the link to it.
- A help screen with the most important takeaways about stand-ups, like the fact that it should not be run by a product owner or manager, that it is to serve the sprint goal, etc.
Some things I'd suggest based on the demo:
- A splash page right before the stand-up begins to remind people to resist the urge to explain in detail what they did; two sentences per item is more than enough. If a question can't be answered in two sentences, it should immediately become a Team Topic.
- A big countdown timer that gets more red and shakes as time goes on, both for each individual person, and for how long the whole standup is taking.
- Some buttons to create a Jira item, Zoom meeting, etc from a Team Topic, and share the link to it.
- A help screen with the most important takeaways about stand-ups, like the fact that it should not be run by a product owner or manager, that it is to serve the sprint goal, etc.