Re:The "3 standup questions" are terrible and need to die
by operatingthetan on Friday February 09, 2024 @12:29PM
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The process isn't to wait until the next standup. Asking for blockers is the manager's way of ensuring no-one is keeping a blocker from them. A functional team would have devs who float blockers when the arise and most of the time they would answer the question with "no blockers."
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Re:The "3 standup questions" are terrible and need to die
by jwagenet on Friday February 09, 2024 @12:38PM
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This is in contention with the usual developer gripe about being interrupted from focus. Sometimes the blocker is your teammate who doesn’t like interruptions. Or a junior has been told to or assumes they need to “figure it out” and wastes a bunch of time instead of asking.
Re:The "3 standup questions" are terrible and need to die
by bluGill on Friday February 09, 2024 @12:47PM
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> a junior has been told to or assumes they need to “figure it out” and wastes a bunch of time instead of asking.
Often you don't even know. More than once I've discovered someone working on a complex problem - they were making progress so didn't realize that someone else already had a solution and so they could save days of effort by asking the right person the right question.
Re:The "3 standup questions" are terrible and need to die
by jwagenet on Saturday February 10, 2024 @01:51AM
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Right. My point is there's a cohort of people here who are like "dont bother me, I only check email/slack in the morning, need extended focus time". At least some of those people are the ones who might know a thing or too, but they breed a culture of discouraging even bringing an issue up.