Re:The daily stand-up is an anti-pattern
by tragic on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @03:20AM
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Plus: as soon as you have some people on-site and others remote, simple things like updating the board are done at best inconsistently. Having a standup with your remote devs on hangouts/whatever can save you a whole day's duplicated work.
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simple things like updating the board are done at best inconsistently
And here you have your real problem.
You're applying an office-tool (the board) to a team that is not sharing an office.
What works much better for distributed teams is to treat them like OSS projects.
Do you know any OSS project that uses a "board", or stand up meetings?
They use the issue-tracker, pull-requests and chat instead.
We've switched our standup format to only talk about the tickets on the board and the daily actions needed to move them to the next stage in the process. This avoids pointless status updates and keeps everyone focused on getting the priorities done.
Re:The daily stand-up is an anti-pattern
by kwhitefoot on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @06:02AM
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It also keeps the team together as a team. The team I work on is in three geographically separated locations. Without the standup we would tend to become three separate teams.
I feel that the article is attacking a strawman, or perhaps it is a no true Scotsman where the objections are all or mostly about standups that aren't working rather than about the idea of a short "Let's just make sure we are all on the same page" session.