Hey Brian,
great tip. Haven't thought about that yet. It sounds like a brilliant concept for reality-checking the value of the Stand-Up and winning buy-in from people who (rightfully) question the benefit of doing Stand-Ups in comparison to what you give up (n minutes * participants). I'll definitely keep this in mind for the future.
Exactly what I hoped for when writing the blog post, I'm learning so much right now just by hearing insights from people like you.
Re:3 Tips for Effective Stand-Up Meetings
by darkxanthos on Monday September 17, 2012 @09:48AM
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I love this idea. It seems to relate to the idea of enabling yourselves to fail fast and often. I'm adding this to my tool box for when a need arises. Thanks!
Re:3 Tips for Effective Stand-Up Meetings
by andrewflnr on Monday September 17, 2012 @11:51AM
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I would have thought Monday was just the day you would want a standup to load everything back into your head from the weekend. Do you have a better way to do that?
Re:3 Tips for Effective Stand-Up Meetings
by tcharron on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @04:50PM
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I would have thought it would work out better if you took Friday off. That way you don't have to deal with a stand-up over the telephone. Stand-ups over the phone are often extremely painful and nowhere near as useful.
Only do your standups 4 days a week. That way you get a weekly reminder of what you miss when you don't do daily standups and a weekly reminder of what you're giving up to do them.
I really think that it helps keep things moving faster on the 4 days that we do the standups. Our workplace has no-standup Mondays and work-from-home Fridays (with a telephone standup). I recommend both practices.