Re:Standups are Poisonous
by mbehrendt on Saturday March 30, 2013 @09:42AM
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If this works for you it's awesome, congrats. But what I saw in the past (3 different companies) was more like 30m+ standups, because most people (funny enough especially project managers) tend to talk way too much during standups. Unfortunately.
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Re:Standups are Poisonous
by ratherbefuddled on Saturday March 30, 2013 @10:49AM
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> project managers
There's your problem. That role is the antithesis of a self organising team. With someone responsible for "managing" that stand up turns into a very expensive way to keep the manager briefed.
True.
Re:Standups are Poisonous
by ricardobeat on Saturday March 30, 2013 @02:52PM
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Had the same experience. They can't help turning it into a status report, and think it's a good show to talk a lot. PMs and Agile are hard to mix.
Our team made Take-It-Offline flags that we'd wave whenever someone started going off track during standup. The change was immediate, standup time was cut in half. Now people don't even bring their flags, we just raise our hand or quietly say, "TIO!" Once standup's over, those that had items to TIO stick around and talk about them.
In Scrum that's where the Scrum Master comes in. It's their job to facilitate the meeting to ensure that those conversations are continued after the meeting.
A good team will often find ways to achieve these things without requiring the Scrum Master to step in.
Right, and that doesn't surprise me. However, this isn't a problem with standups, but a problem with people not understanding the underlying concepts or just wanting to look good to the team.
*edit: missed a word