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The standup meeting can burn in hell. It's a lovely bit of useless micromanagement. Consider: If you're organized at all, there should be notifications going
by douche 9y ago
The standup meeting can burn in hell. It's a lovely bit of useless micromanagement. Consider:
If you're organized at all, there should be notifications going out when anyone on your team commits code, or comments on tickets, or whatever. If your communications are so dysfunctional that you need to have a defined point every day to apprise people of what is going on or ask questions of your teammates, focusing on that root problem would be more effective than band-aiding it with a daily standup.
There's never a good time to schedule it. No matter when you do so, it's going to frig someone up and waste one to two hours of productive flow time, at best. First thing in the morning doesn't work, because people run late. Later in the morning, and you might as well kiss the whole morning goodbye for productive work. At the end of the day, it will inevitably run over and piss off everybody who needs to get the hell out of the office and take care of their personal obligations at the end of the day.
There's always one or two people that want to ramble along and narrate every little thing they did in excruciating detail. Or that want to turn an issue that turns up relevant to two people into an interminable status/planning meeting on that issue. Mostly, I'm just not convinced that there is any way to do a standup meeting right, so that it is useful for it's stated purpose without being more costly than it is worth.
If you need this kind of fine-grained progress reporting, have everybody send an email or a group chat with the three standup kindergarten circle-time questions answered. Then if there is an actual need to meet and go over something, you can identify the relevant people and not waste everyone else's time.
We ditched standup meetings a while back. It's been glorious.